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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] godless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in China and this software is cancerous not just in the encryption failure, it also nestles into a computer like a trojan. Creates 2 fallback installations and will reinstall itself after removal if you reboot in between, unless you get rid of all 3 installations at once, where they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the uninstall button (triple confirmation, swapping the confirm/cancel buttons and button background colors, etc.).

It's a nasty piece of crap that come preloaded on any phone (android, at least) and Windows-PC here.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's time to switch to Linux!

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean the CCP is aiming to have people use Kylin? If the government and the entire populace starts using Linux instead we'll just see the same BS on Linux instead. It's not an OS/platform issue, but an issue of bad actors.

[–] djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org 0 points 1 year ago

On the plus side maybe then it’ll finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

monkeys paw curls

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, there is also a Linux version.

[–] 3arn0wl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most popular Western OS (and probably the other commercial OSs too) sends every key typed back to base. Plus every website visited. Plus every document amended.

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that it would surprise me in any way, but do you have a source for this claim?

What, you don't take whataboutist claims trying to deflect attention from CCP spyware at face value?

[–] thecam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.

[–] ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

And gboard or SwiftKey don't?