Comment by trescenzi
15 hours ago
If you consider TikTok a “Security-sensitive system” that seems to be such a broad category as to be useless. I guess we should stop using any and all Chinese produced software systems then? Which isn’t an unreasonable opinion but again it feels like a different conversation than “ban TikTok”.
You don't consider a massively deployed app, on a majority of mobile devices, via which blackmailable individual profiles can be assembled "security-sensitive"?
I'd absolutely consider Meta to be security sensitive. And Microsoft. And Google. And Netflix.
I'm curious what netflix behavior you imagine would ever be blackmailable?
"You watched Red One, and we'll tell you employer and wife about it unless you ..."
How does this work?
Frequency of datapoints is the main difference between Netflix and TikTok.
If TikTok can infer something about a person, then Netflix can also infer it.
> blackmailable individual profiles can be assembled
What does that even mean in this context? Have you used TikTok before?
> What does that even mean in this context?
TikTok's CSAM problem is well documented [1].
Disposable idiots are a necessary asset for any intelligence operation. Kim Jong-nam's assasins, for example, "were told to play harmless tricks on people in the vicinity for a prank TV show" [2].
[1] https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/tiktok-under-fede...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
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