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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So when the Chinese do it it's scary, but when the Americans do it it's just "established practice"?
Neither of the groups should be allowed to do it.
But when Usonians do, nothing happens.
Whataboutism doesn't really apply when pointing out a double standard. It's true that both places shouldn't do the bad thing, but it's more about the individual's reaction to that thing depending on who does it. The average US citizen will criticise the CCP for doing plenty of the same things their government currently does, or has done in the past, that they support.
Furthermore, it's important to note that when this kind of thing happens, people treat it as China's government's fault, but when Tesla cars explode, people don't consider that the US government's fault.