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> Desktop applications are uniquely auditable by security professionals in a way that web sites inherently aren't.

Except for the desktop applications that simply pop up a web view to load the web site from the internet.

(Looks at Discord, Slack, Zoom)

Not all Electron apps are this way, for example LM Studio stores its interface locally and therefore doesn't rely on loading it from a remote server at application start time. But a surprising number of them are.




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