I’m curious how/where you got the impression that desktop apps are more secure than the WP admin.
For better security, you can enable SSL for the normal WP admin web interface, by adding this line to wp-config.php:
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
More info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL
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