Is your phone tracking what you type?


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We've all wondered if our phones are spying on us, perhaps recording our information, somehow leaking it. Well, a new report has revealed that this one-time daydream may have turned into a real-life Orwellian nightmare for some. Citizen Lab has found that at least one billion people have been susceptible to having every keystroke logged, opening them up to mass surveillance. After analyzing nine of the most-used keyboard apps for Chinese speakers, eight of them had vulnerabilities that could fully expose all the typed messages. "Anyone could just eavesdrop on the traffic and decrypt it, fully seeing what you're typing,"...