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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 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These findings underscore the importance for software developers in China to use well-supported encryption implementations such as TLS instead of attempting to custom design their own.

lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The writer out here acting like this wasn’t an intended feature lol

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

And this is the only point of the article. Idk what all these other comments are on about, but this article is outlining lack of standardized protocols that made the software vulnerable to network eavesdropping.

This doesn't point to a big CCP conspiracy, it's just bad design.