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\title{Sufyaan's Website}
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\section[Use AnySoftKeyboard]{Use AnySoftKeyboard}\label{why-i-use-terminal-apps}
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\textbf{22 September 2023}
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\textbf{Category: }Software
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Your smartphone keyboard is an astoundingly sensitive piece of software.
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You use it to type everything from the most innocent of messages to the
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most crucial passwords. In terms of messaging on encrypted chat
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applications like Session or Signal, your smartphone keyboard bypasses
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encryption. They could know what you are searching about even on private
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search engines like SearX. This is because your keystrokes are
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unencrypted. With respect to passwords, your smartphone keyboard, if
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invasive, can potentially view your bank account details. This means
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that an individual who can access your smartphone keyboard does not need
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to utilize advanced techniques to view your data. Therefore, in terms of
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trust, you should make sure you absolutely trust your smartphone
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keyboard not to store your written text.
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When you keep the above statements in mind, it gets unhealthily
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fear-inducing when you read how
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\href{https://www.androidauthority.com/swiftkey-suspends-service-data-leak-706680/}{SwiftKey
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had a cloud syncing glitch which led to users being able to view other
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users\textquotesingle{} email addresses.} It is also scary how
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\href{https://www.zdnet.com/article/600m-samsung-galaxy-phones-at-security-risk-due-to-pre-installed-keyboard-flaw/}{SwiftKey
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that shipped by default on 600M Samsung Galaxy smartphones had a
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vulnerability that allowed hackers to setup a proxy server to access
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sensors and install apps without the user knowing.} There was also a
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keyboard called ai.type that had over 40M users. Out of these,
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\href{https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-virtual-keyboard-leaks-31-million-user-data/}{31M
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users had their data leaked because the MongoDB database had no
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password.} This included information like
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numbers, full names, device names and models, screen resolution, Android
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version, IMSI and IMEI numbers, email addresses, country of residence,
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social media profiles, IP addresses and even locations.}
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What is the solution to this madness? Fortunately, if you are on
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Android, you have \href{../definitions/free-software}{free software}
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options. By using \href{../definitions/free-software}{free software}
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keyboards, you can ensure that none of your keystrokes are stored or
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sent to a server. This brings us to
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\href{https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/}{AnySoftKeyboard}.
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AnySoftKeyboard is a free, libre and open-source keyboard for Android
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that has multiple modes, layouts, theme customizations and more. It has
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all the features you would expect. Gesture typing, keyboard effects,
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corrections, emojis, you name it. Most importantly, it does not track
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any of your keystrokes. I have been using it for almost an year. It has
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been fast and efficient due to the minimalism and has saved me a lot of
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time. It has many niche features like a terminal layout that has arrows,
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tabs, pipes and forward slashes for ease of use in Android terminal
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emulators like \href{https://termux.dev/en/}{Termux}.
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If you are on an iPhone, the best option is ironically Gboard. You can
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tracker blocking. Gboard does not log the text you store and instead
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uses federated learning to improve its autocorrect. There are no private
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options for an iPhone so it is better to choose the best out of two
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evils.
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All in all, the keyboard you use should be a factor for everyone. Use a
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different keyboard and do not use the default one unless you are on
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\href{https://lineageos.org/}{LineageOS} or
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\href{https://grapheneos.org/}{GrapheneOS}.
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