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Another possibility is that a forced sale could uncover links to Chinese government surveillance in technical assets, and that's a risk they don't want to take.
by jeswin 6y ago
Another possibility is that a forced sale could uncover links to Chinese government surveillance in technical assets, and that's a risk they don't want to take.
- emteycz 6y agoDo you think they have API calls to the communist party's surveillance backoffice?
- arcticbull 6y agoLots of cheap Android smartphones do, why wouldn't TikTok? I just don't think they get anything material out of the integration due to the unbelievably low signal to noise ratio.
- charliemil4 6y agoI’d venture to say it’s filtered to knowing who influences culture. Then pinpointing what those accounts respond to. Then designing content to shift said culture through this channel.
- inglor_cz 6y agoWho knows. People being people, the backdoors that are likely there might be easily visible from the source code. And they may be identical to backdoors used elsewhere. Devs do not like to reinvent the wheel. And scrubbing them out without trace prior to ownership transfer is not easy. One forgotten backup copy of the Git database is enough to leak the info.
- andrepd 6y agoYes? It's neither technically impossible nor beyond a totalitarian state to do so. So why would you presume otherwise?
- lowwave 6y agoOf course. It is CCP, they are scanning QR code to determine if someone can go some where. It is like a video game in real life over there.
- extremeMath 6y agoThis is probably true for all billion dollar tech companies. Imagine how much dirt Facebook, Apple and Microsoft has.
- dis-sys 6y agoone possibility here is that you are on CIA's payroll posting such nonsense here.
- dang 6y agoThe parent comment was unsubstantive but please don't make the thread worse by going into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html