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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoYeah. And I don’t fault them for this route. I just with I could sign up without a phone number. Maybe the username thing is a predecessor to allowing usernam-only registration in the future.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, hopefully. It would also be awesome to have a web login so I could access messages and whatnot when using someone else’s computer w/o having to install something.
I don’t know what direction they’re going, but I’m honestly okay with the caveats that currently exist.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Having web logon would mean they would need to hold the decryption key in some form (or have a weak decryption key, your credentials), so, while convenient, I think it would degrade security and possibly privacy. Unless you mean to receive new messages, the way the desktop app works?
Laborer3652@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Not if they used WebAssembly to do all the decryption locally.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking haha
Manalith@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I’d be more interested in allowing more than one Android device at a time like MySudo. They let you link Windows with a phone so I wouldn’t think it would be too hard to implement.