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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

I assume they mean "if suitable suggestions are not available in the input method’s local database". Like you start typing a word, and when it doesn't find any match locally, it goes to the server. After that, any additional keystroke gets reported to the server "as they type".