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For creativity software, there's a fine line between "what keyboard shortcuts do I press" and "can the sequence of what I'm typing be captured and recreated, an
by btown 5y ago
For creativity software, there's a fine line between "what keyboard shortcuts do I press" and "can the sequence of what I'm typing be captured and recreated, and used to target me or steal my work."
Muse Group could have laid down very specific ground rules: telemetry will always be opt-in, you'll be able to audit exactly what is sent, it will never contain low-level keystroke information, it will be anonymized before being saved into our database and be impossible to associate with a cloud user login. That would be the opposite of spyware! But they didn't set these ground rules, and now they have this entire uprising on their hands. I'd like to give them the opportunity to do right and learn from this experience. But they also need a wake-up call that they need to work to earn back the community's trust.