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broken-kebab • today at 1:13 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Account is compromised as long as it could be accessible to someone for reading, and potentially impersonation. Possibility to revoke access doesn't mean 'uncompromisable', it means 'easier mitigatable'. The real barrier here is practical restriction of access, and OS-level data encryption, and it works equally well (or equally bad) for any software, whether it's XMPP-based or it's Signal.