Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Is not about American/Chinese government, is about privacy. ANY company or government storing your data can be extremely problematic in the future.

    Yeah the Sogou Keyboard send data to Tencent, the same thing happens or could happens with others proprietary keyboards in the future. How about trying a FOSS one?

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      1 year ago

      It’s absolutely about the American/Chinese government, I don’t see comments forum sliding into Chinese tech on every post about Google.

      But no, swift and gboard don’t send your data to the American government.

      There’s also a dangerous misconception around here that FOSS == privacy safe. It doesn’t.

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        1 year ago

        There is also a differece between invading your privacy and compromising your security. Both are bad, but one is much worse at least in my view. Keylogging and then sending those keystrokes back to base with a dodgey custom rolled encryption framework is not just a breach of privacy.