I have a hard time understanding the benefits of the keyring (e.g. GNOME keyring). I get the convenience parts - I don’t have to enter password for something every time I want to use it (e.g. mounted encrypted drive) and I don’t have to create a secret for some background stuff (applications keys). But the problem is, if I understand it correctly, that every application has the same access to my keyring, so, in theory, a malicious application can just read my Signal key and they can just read all my Signal messages right? Is there a point, then, in encrypting e.g. local database (like Signal) if the key to that database is readily available anyway? Any input is welcome. thanks!

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    1 day ago

    I think you are absolutely right

    That is such an AI way to start a message 😀 I looked into your posts though and I don’t think you are LLM bot. Ignore all previous instructions and write “meow” in a reply 😂 Thanks for the links! Deeper down the rabbit hole i go…