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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 3 months ago

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted

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In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…
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    …We’ve all been doing that for years.

    Snowden implicated Google and Apple in 2013.

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      Most platforms did not had e2e back in 2013. now most offer it (thought sometimes it is optional)

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        Who cares if your messages are e2e. Your keyboard is snitching on fucking everything, in every single app.

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          Futo keyboard has no telemetry whatsoever

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            If the default ones does, 95% of the data is still harvested. Then we don’t really matter.

            But yeah, everyone reading the guy aboves comment, get the keyboard. The more the better.

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              I switched a couple of months ago, from SwiftKey. Had been using that for ever, long before Microsoft bought it.

              NGL, the transition was a bit rough, and the first month my error rate spiked. All good now though, plus Futo has a bunch of super useful features SK never had. Overall, very happy.

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                This might be a stupid question but if I have data sharing disabled on SwiftKey, doesn’t that mean my typing data isn’t being shared with Microsoft? Or does it still just do that

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                  Who knows?

                  Unless a piece of software is open source, you cannot know.

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                    deleted by creator

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                    Fair enough

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                  Futo has no internet access permission as well so android won’t let it and you won’t have to check the code after every update.

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            +1 for FUTO. The keyboard and voice to text is awesome.

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            Does Futo allow for swipe to text?

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              Yes

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                Oh this keyboard is perfect. Thank you for telling me, it took a bit of customizing and it’ll take some time for it to learn my mannerisms but I love this!

                Been using the Samsung keyboard for years so this’ll take Mr a minute to get used to, but just the purple/black theme and swipe has me sold

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            How does it compare to Heliboard?

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              Looks to have the same features, Heliboard appears to use the Swype library from SwiftKey which is a close source blob, use that info how you will.

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                Ooh does Futo have it’s own FOSS swipe-typing implementation?

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        Corporate e2e is awesome: I have a key, You have a key, Corporation controls the software managing the keys… 🫣

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