Samsung currently has an unremovable spyware app on North American phones that pastes (records) everything copied to the clipboard by any app. It is the Samsung Keyboard app. It cannot be removed. It doesn't matter if you're using any other keyboard app. Samsung Keyboard pastes (records) everything that gets copied to the clipboard by any app. The Samsung Keyboard app cannot even be disabled from Android.

As an aside, I recall getting a lot more ads when I used Samsung Keyboard.

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noisy_boy a day ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes I will see a small random "copied" floating notification (not in the notification tray) and I always wondered where it came from. Maybe they have put in some code to suppress it but due to some bug, it leaks out. No proof but I can only hypothize.

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rs186 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thanks for mentioning this! I saw it but never put much thoughts into it. Now it seems a huge security risk/active security exploit.

Strangely enough, I cannot reproduce this now.

I'll see when it happens again, and if I can uninstall keyboard via adb. It's just a pre-installed app, after all.

	▲	OutOfHere a day ago \| parent [-]
		What do you mean you cannot reproduce it? Enable the setting in your Android to notify you whenever any app pasted from the keyboard. Unless you have already used adb to disable or remove the app, the issue is guaranteed.

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bapak a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every day it feels like regulators need to increase enforcement by an order of magnitude. For every fine they dish out, 10 more abuses go unnoticed.

	▲	logicchains a day ago \| parent [-]
		The regulators work for the same governments and intelligence agencies that are making companies add such clandestine spyware.

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stevenhuang a day ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/mtakqq/how_t...

Yeah, all Samsung software is a liability.

Don't even get me started on the Samsung smart TVs. Just horrible all-around.

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spinlock_ a day ago | parent [-]

Thats why my Samsung TV has no internet access and I'm using Apple TV instead.

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Dah00n a day ago | parent [-]

From the fire into....

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spinlock_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

Into what? Though I have no illusions about any tech company, I trust Apple more than Samsung right now. It's all relative, not absolute.

	▲	amlib 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a slippery slope. Apple is as bad as Google was about 10 years ago and things seems to be degrading faster and faster. Give it another 5 years and they will be as bad as Google/Samsung is today.

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joshstrange a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you wanna expand on that or just make vague statements with no facts?