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The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by Tazmanian to c/technology
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] nomadjoanne 151 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (53 children)

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.

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