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		User23 on Feb 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running Lisp in Production (2020) Discord is also a keylogger. Edit: it literally asks for key logging permission on Mac OS.

alberth on Feb 2, 2022 | [–]

I thought this was fake news?

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/hdahy1/any_good...

Is it true discord keylogs outside of its app?

thorwawayrus53 on Feb 2, 2022 | [–]

In the case of discord it stores the messages in its servers. So what is this news.

emteycz on Feb 2, 2022 | [–]

The point is it has the permission, even outside the app, the entire time it's running (so all the time).

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