OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
Until Friday, OpenAI’s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn’t hard to find your chats stored on your computer and read them in plain text. That meant that if a bad actor or malicious app had access to your machine, they could easily read your conversations with ChatGPT and the data contained within them. As demonstrated by Pedro José Pereira Vieito on Threads, the ease of access meant it was possible to have another app access those files and sho...
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