Re:Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
by elesbao on Friday August 26, 2022 @08:25AM
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Looks like a neat idea but having any kind of keylogger installed in my machine gives me second thoughts(a keylogger has the same principle of intercepting typed words and tags but instead of replacing them according to a backend system it sends the text away or store so some other party can read)
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Re:Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
by federicoterzi on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:21AM
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Author here :)
This is definitely a good concern to have, though Espanso was built with security in mind, so the keys you press are not logged anywere. We keep the last N in memory (with N being usually between 5 to 30 chars) to do the matching, and discard them as soon as possible