Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising

As mentioned in the comments, plain text keys aren’t bad because they are necessary. You have to have at least one plain text key in order to be able to use encryption

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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    4 months ago

    It isn’t, because their business practices violate the four FOSS essential freedoms:

    1. The freedom to run the program for any purpose
    2. The freedom to study and modify the program
    3. The freedom to redistribute copies of the original or modified program
    4. The freedom to distribute modified versions of the program

    Specifically, freedom 4 is violated, because you are not permitted to distribute a modified version of the program that connects to the Signal servers (even if all your modified version does is to remove Google Play Services or something similar).