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It's pretty clearly key-logging and on top of that they've had poor security in the past which is not great when they're key-logging everything you type. Perso
by kotajacob 9y ago
It's pretty clearly key-logging and on top of that they've had poor security in the past which is not great when they're key-logging everything you type.
Personally I can't say I took the high ground though I just blocked swiftkey with a firewall and figure that's good enough for me.
- maaark 9y agopretty clearly? Got a source or anything to back that up?
- egeozcan 9y agoI researched a bit and apparently they had a bug which made the cloud sync leak the personal data of others: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swiftkey-bug-backup-sync-down-error-prediction https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swi...
- lima 9y agoCloud sync is opt in and I don't know why anyone in their right mind would enable it... That being said, using a closed source application packed with features (also known as "attack surface") as your main input method clearly isn't ideal.
- positivecomment 9y agoWell, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.
- rmc 9y agoHow else does it know what to predict without logging what keys you press?
- Nitishshah700 9y agoyeah and that's why i block it assess to internet using afwall+