Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
And gboard or SwiftKey don’t?
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.
Not that it would surprise me in any way, but do you have a source for this claim?
Just gonna plug FlorisBoard here. A bit barebones for now but at least it respects your privacy.
FOSS keyboards for Android:
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.
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.
Do people generally try to circumvent it? Are they too scared to uninstall it? Or do they just not care?
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
