[guardian-dev] Android 4.3 has built-in keylogger support

Tom Ritter tom at ritter.vg
Thu Jul 25 08:56:07 EDT 2013


On 25 July 2013 07:46, Michael Rogers <michael at briarproject.org> wrote:
> "Starting in Android 4.3, accessibility services can observe and
> filter key events, such as to handle keyboard shortcuts or provide
> navigation parity with gesture-based input. The service receives the
> events and can process them as needed before they are passed to the
> system or other installed apps."

I don't think this is anything you couldn't do before by just building
your own keyboard and replacing the system one.  Which requires double
opt-in as Mark mentioned.

-tom


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