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!

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgOP
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    21 hours ago

    I have implicitly accepted it, as any normal user, but it doesn’t change the fact that its a security hole the size of Greenland 😀. And it works like this on Windows and basically MacOS as well as I stated above. So all players just got okay with that I suppose because everybody does it…