The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
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Every single time something sketchy is happening in Chinese tech a Lemmy user will slide the conversation and accusations to American tech. It's a rule.
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?
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.
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.
On all social media, that seems to happen and it makes me sick.
People not knowing how scary the Chinese government is speaks volumes about the future of other countries. We had all the opportunity to see it happen and avoid it and these morons dismiss the truth and whatabout every damned thing
Well, we have actual evidence here of dodgy shit happening, but what about this other thing I assume is also happening based on absolutely nothing? See, both just as bad!