[squarefoot]

> No encryption was harmed by capturing the keystrokes and audio before it reaches the application.

Exactly, and some people including me thought about this possibility years ago. The most secure system in the universe can still be hacked very easily by a malicious closed driver because device drivers have the highest access level to the underlying hardware. Every information being produced: (virtual) keyboard writings, data, contacts, sensors data, GPS, audio, files, etc. I mean everything can be accessed a lot before it reaches the encryption code and be relayed to a 3rd party without the user even noticing.

This plague won't go away, not until enough people with enough influence will require hardware manufacturers to document their hardware in order to create OSS and trustworthy device drivers.

[senectus1]

yup, its a chicken/egg scenario.