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One way that I've been wondering about is all these new keyboards coming on the market. Things like Swype, Swiftkey etc. They have cloud storage for storing d
by shostack 11y ago
One way that I've been wondering about is all these new keyboards coming on the market. Things like Swype, Swiftkey etc.
They have cloud storage for storing data to feed predictive algorithms, but it essentially becomes a cloud-based keystroke logger.
So you may be sending encrypted traffic via hotspot, but your keyboard process running in the background has the raw input data and is feeding that to a server.
I'd love to read a more detailed writeup on the security of such apps, which ones are trusted (ie. only using local encrypted storage, no phoning home), etc.