New citizen lab report finds vulnerabilities in the security of cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from vendors Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi that could be exploited to reveal what a user types (keystrokes).
Having your keystrokes intercepted is a huge privacy and security risk.
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i switched to another keyboard app away from GBoard >> OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
https://github.com/dslul/openboard
Also that keyboard doesn't rely on any background data being sent or received like most other keyboards do
Download via play store
/nosanitize
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarevalencia.openboard.inputmethod.latin
Interested..I'll give it a try!.. thanks!
I just had to fix that last word I typed (from thanjs to thanks), -sheesh! Does it fix my keyboard errors automatically? 🤣🤣🤣