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otherme123 on May 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all networ...

And who decides "responsible"? The mantainer made the decision of defaulting to no-network for safety reasons, that users can reverse with a flag. This sounds responsible enough for me.

I bet that if a bug is found in the connection API and passwords leak, we would impale the head of the mantainer in a pike for not defaulting to safe mode, or to have connection at all.

nrabulinski on May 11, 2024 [–]

And the software authors made it clear that those features, even if compiled in, are disabled by default and the code never executes.

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