Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t mention the US.

    The article makes it sound like it’s UNUSUAL that a phone app is spying on its users and sending user data to the government. It’s not an exception, it’s the rule. People pointing this out are doing you a favor, because the article’s framing would otherwise lead you to believe this is a China problem and not a tech problem.

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      1 year ago

      no, people who do this are shilling for China and/or tiktok. we all know this.

      and yes the raw keyboard data going directly from your fingers to the government is not something that likely happens in the US, so either way this is a false equivalence.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not defending China.

        the raw keyboard data going directly from your fingers to the government is not something that likely happens in the US, so either way this is a false equivalence.

        Again, I never mentioned the US.

        What does it matter if the data is routed to the government server first or second? Blanket data collection is nefarious no matter who is doing it, but it landing in the hands of any government is dangerous. It isn’t somehow less dangerous just because it hits a private server first (although it’s harder to tell spying is happening, so in that respect it may be worse)

        E2E encryption should be standard across all tech platforms in every country, full stop.

        *Edit: it is especially weird to be having this discussion with someone with your username, since Snowden of all people understood the pervasiveness of governments spying on their citizens (especially in the US) and the need and importance for secure encryption protocols to protect against it.