xGeek Needs Your Opinion!

So I’ve been building this site over the last few weeks and trying to promote it as much as I can via the old zCrew. I know a few others here have also been trying to help. But for the people that are here, I would like to try and get your feedback on two things.

• What promotion you’d like to see to try and get word out about the site.
• Whether there are some additional features you’d like to see on the site.

I would welcome any feedback as comments to this post. While we may never have something on the scale of one of our previous incarnations, I would still like this site to be as successful as possible, particularly with the amount of effort that has been put in to make it work.

Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by BleepingComputer in 2018, when Signal Desktop for Windows or Mac is installed, it creates an encrypted SQLite database to store a user’s messages. This database is encrypted using a key generated by the program and without input from the user.

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