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Wow, it's pretty wild they didn't even attempt to encrypt or protect this data, even if it is local to your machine. What a treasure trove for malware to sift through.
It IS encrypted. Not well, but it's encrypted.
I thought that it was encrypted if your home directory was encrypted? The impression that I got was that it was just a SQLite database stored in the clear. The user must certainly be able to make queries of that database in order for it to work, so even if it's hosted by a non-user service, malware running locally will still be able to exfiltrate the data.
All true, which is what I meant by "not well" encrypted. It's technically encrypted, but for all practical purposes it might as well not be.
Is it? I skimmed the GitHub source code and couldn't see anything involving encryption, but it's totally possible I missed something. Perhaps just accessing the database from python is enough to decrypt it.
Now ransomware hackers can sell all your shit to someone else if you refuse to pay.
threats to out your porn habits just got more real