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iOS 8 Keyboards, 'Full Access', and User Privacy
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Fixed it for ya
All the protection laws your nice friendly government put in place to ensure they can have easy access to your data and stored on amazons cloud who coperate by letting the governments in the back door. Ok got it.
fixed that for you
Must be great for those apps that do get full access to ALL those accounts. Making it real easy for the NSA etc, no more messing around with clunky systems trying to correlate info. Just get it all from the keyboard app makers who they quietly sponsor. Hmm
call me skeptical but isn't what I wrote the basis for a far better news story?
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So? This is the same with every app you use. When you use Facebook, they can see all the info you enter there. When you use Twitter, they can see all of the info you enter there. Google takes every bit of what you enter there, from searches to emails and people are happy to use it.
You read the privacy policy and see what they're doing with your info and you decide if you're going to use it.
Spread the fear and outrage MacRumors.
So when iOS didn't allow 3rd party keyboards that was bad and according to many why Android was better and so far ahead of iOS. Now iOS gets 3rd party keyboards and that's bad because of privacy issues and Apple should have found a better way than allowing 3rd party keyboards. Good grief.
they must get something out of it right. They don't do it for their own happiness and to sleep better at night.
What we should be reading is how all this stuff is being shared and where its going. Just get it out in the open and be done with it.
this is why I use swype. It fully functions without "enable full access" and didn't even have the toggle until the latest update. It is still buggy and in early stages, but it works, has a library to add words you type a lot such as curse words, and seems minimalist in my view compared to others.
I've been using it since day 1 iOS8 and have had no issues because I refuse to enable full access. This is why i chose to pay .99 for it
I've been using it since day 1 iOS8 and have had no issues because I refuse to enable full access. This is why i chose to pay .99 for it
Why? The big name keyboards Swype, Swift, whatever have a large following. I highly doubt they risk their brand awareness on doing something nefarious. Imagine the outrage. It also effects Android users as those two are the top keyboard replacements (often used as 3rd party bloat on new phones).
It is the small time keyboard developers I'd be worried about.
Never using any of them. Akin to third-party keyloggers in the App Store. Oh, you "encrypt" data? I feel so much better about every single thing I type being transmitted to NSA Sparc servers.
Not quite. At least in L and 4.4, when you try to enable a keyboard for the first time it gives you a similar click-through warning about how the keyboard can see everything you type. However, Android does not switch back to the native keyboard for password entry, so iOS has that going for it at least.
If you don't want anyone tracking you, stay off the internet, and don't use a cell phone.
Question: since you can change keyboards on the fly, does switching over to Apple's keyboard to type your passwords offer any extra security?
Outrage? The government set up enormous servers right inside major telcomm buildings, mirrored backbone traffic, and are hoovering up everything. Link. Today these companies are bigger than ever.
Forget outrage, companies don't care and the repercussions are zero. Your only defense is at the individual level, to reject tech that spies on you, and to use tech to secure your data.
yes. i've noticed that the apple dictionary and the swype dictionaries stay separate. the apple keyboard wont have access to what you typed with third parties and vice versa.
is handy if you have kids. i switch keyboards when typing dirty words.
Huh. So does a secondary keyboard still "see" what you're typing on the Apple keyboard?
I use Swype on my Note 3, but I sometimes go back to the regular keyboard because I don't 'feel' safe. I also watched too much of Enemy of the State.
To me, this is accident waiting to happen. I'm sticking with the Apple default keyboard. I've used it all this time, and it's fine. I'm also using it less and less with the dictation features anyway.