Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Naomi Wu has literally been talking about pwnd Chinese IMEs for years in her sidechannel critiques of Signal.
As if other keyboard apps are any different, I don’t think Microsoft bought SwiftKey just for fun?!
Really? Isn’t this kind of thing scandalous enough to tank companies?
It’s in their EULA read their terms of services
Imagine willingly installing a keylogger, lol
“Notice the lack of surprise.”
So when the Chinese do it it’s scary, but when the Americans do it it’s just “established practice”?
Neither of the groups should be allowed to do it.
Whataboutism doesn’t really apply when pointing out a double standard. It’s true that both places shouldn’t do the bad thing, but it’s more about the individual’s reaction to that thing depending on who does it. The average US citizen will criticise the CCP for doing plenty of the same things their government currently does, or has done in the past, that they support.
Furthermore, it’s important to note that when this kind of thing happens, people treat it as China’s government’s fault, but when Tesla cars explode, people don’t consider that the US government’s fault.
In a surprise to absolutely nobody, China spies on their people.
As opposed to which country?
And everyone’s people
TIL this only happens in China
So use Fcitx 5 Android instead. It’s a open source IME application without requesting any permission except Notification, especially without network permission.
https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android
What do you expect from leftists?
Being left or right doesn’t make you authoritarian. Being authoritarian makes you authoritarian.
“right wing” authoritarians are just leftwing.
No
ROFL posts the political compass. How old are you, twelve?
Didn’t swiftpad or whatever its called send every key pressed to Microsoft?
Not a China shill. China is horrible. Microsoft less so as they don’t commit genocide in slow motion. But still, I think this sort of thing is more common than we think.
Use FOSS.
I feel like there should be a Lemmy version of everything now
I use Florisboard
What’s the deal with Android “keyboards”? Why is it just an app that you can install? And why can it have more functionality/permissions from the OS beyond just being a local keyboard? As an iOS user this is very bizarre and foreign to me.
I feel like every time the topic of Android keyboards (again, why is this a thing?) comes up it’s some kind of big spyware thing. Seems like most every app on Android and iOS is spyware anyway, of course.
As someone that hasn’t drank that Apple flavoured Kool-aid, I can’t understand why people thinking the inabality to use a device you own in the way you want to is considered a feature.
All aspects of android (pretty much) are customisable. It’s not the os that is the problem, but the developers who program on all this telemetry.
There keyboards on android are much more useful than what’s available on iOS. There is a similar issue with launchers. They, by their nature, need more access to other apps and more permissions. In most cases, that means more features, but meta and Microsoft have launchers too…
I use android and iOS. I find both good but the customisable nature of android is what drove me away from iOS.
