semi [he/him]

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Cake day: September 3rd, 2021

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  • This is exciting. My only request here is: whenever it works please release a standalone wasm file somewhere (anywhere). So many projects either require building the wasm themselves, or instead of releasing a .wasm, they release a JS wrapper that auto-loads the wasm/wasm-imports. Its a pain to try to extract the wasm out of those projects.

    What I am doing is to create a omnikee-lib crate within the project that will get compiled to WASM, not just plain keepass, because I need additional adapter methods to interface with the web part of the application. I don’t have the bandwidth to turn keepass into a general WASM package that could be npm installed at the moment. As I am dogfooding the crate, I might get to a point where I know what a good JS interface for it would be, though, and the omnikee-lib crate could become the official WASM interface for keepass.
















  • From the FAQ of the Sunbird website (the tech powering Nothing Chats):

    Will the app be open source?

    Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

    To help satisfy our own ambitious goals of providing total privacy and security, we are currently undergoing a third party audit that will validate our security, encryption and data policies and plan on receiving ISO 27001 certification after launch.

    This was a huge warning sign when the first round of news about Nothing Chats came around, so I’m glad we’re now getting early confirmation that security by obscurity still is a horrible idea and doesn’t work