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> due to geopolitical factors They kind of dug themselves in hole with how sketchy the app is

by fokinsean 6y ago

borg_ 6y ago
and how sketchy exactly is it?
- Baeocystin 6y ago
  https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tiktok-seems-to-be-copying-and-pasting-your-clipboard-with-every-keystroke/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tiktok-seems-to-b...
  - borg_ 6y ago
    https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-14-clipboard-copying-fix https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-... This does not seem specific to tiktok at all. Would you jump in on discussions on LinkedIn and claim "Not surprised, given how sketchy LinkedIn is?"
    - fokinsean 6y ago
      There's not only clipboard issues, this Reddit user did some digging and found some interesting things. https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/ https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
  - borg_ 6y ago
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-ios-apps-still-snoop-your-sensitive-clipboard-data/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-... This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focus on tiktok for the entire article and then tag on the full list of 32 apps towards the end of the article in bullet points.
paulpan 6y ago
There's been some vulnerabilities exposed but I think overall "sketchy" can be subjective. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-us-national-security-risk/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-us-national-security-... A recent example is the app was caught reading the user clipboard in iOS 14 beta but a lot of other apps were also caught red handed. The oft-cited national security risk about ByteDance providing user info to Chinese government is a bit overblown, when the NSA has been spying on its own citizens for years...

> due to geopolitical factors They kind of dug themselves in hole with how sketchy the app is

borg_ 6y ago

and how sketchy exactly is it?

Baeocystin 6y ago
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tiktok-seems-to-be-copying-and-pasting-your-clipboard-with-every-keystroke/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tiktok-seems-to-b...
- borg_ 6y ago
  https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-14-clipboard-copying-fix https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-... This does not seem specific to tiktok at all. Would you jump in on discussions on LinkedIn and claim "Not surprised, given how sketchy LinkedIn is?"
  - fokinsean 6y ago
    There's not only clipboard issues, this Reddit user did some digging and found some interesting things. https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/ https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
- borg_ 6y ago
  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-ios-apps-still-snoop-your-sensitive-clipboard-data/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-... This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focus on tiktok for the entire article and then tag on the full list of 32 apps towards the end of the article in bullet points.

paulpan 6y ago

There's been some vulnerabilities exposed but I think overall "sketchy" can be subjective. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-us-national-security-risk/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-us-national-security-... A recent example is the app was caught reading the user clipboard in iOS 14 beta but a lot of other apps were also caught red handed. The oft-cited national security risk about ByteDance providing user info to Chinese government is a bit overblown, when the NSA has been spying on its own citizens for years...