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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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    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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            We were talking about SwiftKey

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              Oh my bad I’m a silly

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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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