Anybody else uncomfortable with the fact that these drop-in keyboard replacements are effectively sanctioned keyloggers that send keystrokes to a remote server?
"My bank account number is"
And the next suggested word from my keyboard was my actual bank account number. Same thing happened with my sort code. I guess I sent my details to someone a few months before and it just remembered the info.
Other than that slight "oh crap" moment though, the fact it listens to and remembers everything I write comes in super handy. Turns out I use the same few phrases a lot more than I thought I did, and swiping away at my keyboard, and having it predict my next word quickly and accurately saves me SO much time.
If you do enable full access, then yep, anything is fair game. But that's a tradeoff users can make.
[1] - https://twitter.com/SwiftKey/status/514540356918972416
[2] - http://swiftkey.com/en/blog/swiftkey-require-full-access/
[3] - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...
No way I'm agreeing to have everything I type transmitted to a third party.
I can deal with "remote keylogger" _if_ I feel I can trust the business (however ill-defined that may be). Real sore point is ye ole NSA/FBI/whoever being able to demand/siphon that data, so on-device sandboxing is much preferred.
SwiftKey is pretty neat, but may switch to Swype once I'm convinced it's worth the few bucks for a local secure sandbox.