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submitted 1 year ago by Tazmanian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] thecam@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

Just to state the obvious for the less tech-literate out there: an open source one could do the same.

It's just very easy for anyone to find out by inspecting the code, that's why no developer in their right mind would pull such a move.