The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. - eviltoast

Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

  • sugarfree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.