The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
In this report, we analyze the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese-language input method in China. Our analysis found serious vulnerabilities in the app’s custom encryption system and how it encrypts sensitive data. These vulnerabilities could...
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
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Just gonna plug FlorisBoard here. A bit barebones for now but at least it respects your privacy.
How does it compare to OpenBoard?
I wish the development was active , i been using florisboard since years now
Typed with florisboard:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1629183In short word suggestions are hard to implement
Tbh i started using florisboard coz i found word suggestions on google board very scary , it felt like they been tapping each word typed by me ! Florisboard is nicely customizable , although auto correct would be a nice feature to have !
isn't it dead?
Apparently they've been caught up in working on predictions for a good while which has been harder than they expected, so that's slowed development and releases considerably. So not abandoned by the devs for what its worth.
Perhaps. The last update is from June 2022 and the last contribution is 3 months old