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Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Re: Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Post by erichdongubler »

zeep wrote: post #60
tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

> I don't know how these people sleep at night. Are you talking about Apple management or the malware developers?

Not the GP, but...yes. ;)

Re: Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Post by jay_kyburz »

berberous wrote: post #24
wlesieutre wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, that's a good policy. Wasn't aware since I use the stock keyboard everywhere. I tried some alternate ones for swype style typing, but frankly they were all worse than the stock Google keyboard from my days on Android so I gave up on it and learned to type with my thumbs again.

If you haven't tried it, Google's GBoard is now on iOS and is quite good.

Haha, give all your info to Google and Apple at the same time.

Re: Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Post by wlesieutre »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #62
berberous wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you haven't tried it, Google's GBoard is now on iOS and is quite good.

Haha, give all your info to Google and Apple at the same time.

Per all the discussion here, Google can't get your info unless you grant "full access" to the keyboard

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tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

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Re: Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Post by 5ilv3r »

deelin wrote: post #43

This little comment about Mongo really bothers me... I disagree that it's a flaw. It's obviously the fault of the tech team for not securing the DB "One flaw is that the default settings of a MongoDB database would allow anyone with an internet connection to browse the databases, download them, or even worst case scenario to even delete the data stored on them"

I agree completely. One must know their tools before they can use them safely. Ask anyone who has used a saw.

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Post by perryprog »

tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

Interestingly, one of my family members just fell for one of their "DOWNLOAD" ads, while doing some work for a class. She installed it, thinking it was an app for the class, and I had to wipe all of the junk it installed.

After that, I installed uBlock Origin for her.

Re: Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records

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Post by nkkollaw »

tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

Yes, really.

They're the worst.

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Post by aakilfernandes »

tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

There's a possibility that its affiliate advertisers to blame.

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Post by tambourine_man »

zeep wrote: post #60
tambourine_man wrote: post #35

These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I've seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people. Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system's dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc. I'm amazed Apple ha…

> I don't know how these people sleep at night. Are you talking about Apple management or the malware developers?

Yeah. Either they have really strong connections at Apple or Mac App Store is more of a ghost town than I'd like to admin.

Never attribute to malice…

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