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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] godless 352 points 1 year ago (3 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 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's time to switch to Linux!

[–] dojan 121 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

monkeys paw curls

[–] ammonium 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ultra980 15 points 1 year ago
[–] godless 19 points 1 year ago

Then they'll install the Linux version. People here are so indoctrinated, they like it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do people generally try to circumvent it? Are they too scared to uninstall it? Or do they just not care?

[–] godless 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worse. They think it's useful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why? Useful for safety and security of the society?

Edit: Why downvotes? I'm trying to put myself in their shoes, it's not how I view it lol

[–] godless 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Comes with a built in translator and spell checker, and since access to Google translate is blocked, that's often the only alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah ok makes sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol “I love this tool that they made, because they blocked me from Google translate.”

[–] godless 3 points 1 year ago

Nah. They don't know Google translate. Or Google, for that matter. They know what they are supposed to know.

Of course some people know better, and those are the ones who will eventually get around the block - finding and installing a VPN is not rocket science, not even here. But if you keep 98% of the population contained, the rest won't reach critical mass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some weird downvotes, and I want to know too. Why does a keyboard app mean anything to anyone? The keyboards included on iOS and latest Android versions are great.

[–] thekinghaslost 1 points 1 year ago

Don't know about this keyboard or Chinese, but a language specific feature might be one of the reason.

I use SwiftKey and I love how it supports multilingual autocorrect and prediction for Indonesian and English without needing to switch between keyboard language.

iOS built in keyboard supports multilingual typing for some languages, but not Indonesian.

I assume people love it also because some specific feature that doesn't exist in the stock keyboard.

[–] boooooboo 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My guess is that it might either be more accurate in predictions or some additional convenience factors that makes typing this logographic language much easier and faster lol.

Or people are also simply used to it since it's everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be careful jumping the firewall.

[–] godless 17 points 1 year ago

Sure. Foreigners aren't really sanctioned though, that's more of a risk for the locals. But even then usually only if they want to get someone disappeared and don't have anything substantial against them.