To begin with: Apps using such lists make it very clear upfront what they are doing. NOBODY OBFUSCATES THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE LIST.
The list can also easily be a part of the repo that’s pulled at runtime. Or viewable and modifiable from within the app itself.
It wasn’t encrypted.
It’s a client side app, by definition there’s no easy way to encrypt it. Dude certainly gave it a shot by base-64 encoding it. There was no technical reason to encode a text file.
To begin with: Apps using such lists make it very clear upfront what they are doing. NOBODY OBFUSCATES THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE LIST.
The list can also easily be a part of the repo that’s pulled at runtime. Or viewable and modifiable from within the app itself.
It’s a client side app, by definition there’s no easy way to encrypt it. Dude certainly gave it a shot by base-64 encoding it. There was no technical reason to encode a text file.
It was disclosed through user agreement and docs for admins hosting Tesseract. List wasn’t encrypted. We’re going in circles now.
People are allowed to have political opinions and they’re allowed to express them through software. Don’t like it? Don’t use it.