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Same. Just don't give apps all of the permissions. TikTok doesn't have access to my camera, photo library, microphone, local network, location, etc. It's not th
by jeanofthedead 4y ago
Same. Just don't give apps all of the permissions. TikTok doesn't have access to my camera, photo library, microphone, local network, location, etc. It's not that hard.
- rcme 4y agoDo you also forbid giving TikTok access to your brain? That’s the main issue here.
- randombits0 4y agoDang, do you know how bad you sound? TikTok may be crack cocaine but it’s just media, protected expression, and beyond consideration for censorship. You let these bastards turn off this app and they will come back and do it again and again. Mind cancer! For the good of national security! Save the children! What a bunch of rubbish. Go back to school! Wait, you’re screwed there too!
- rcme 4y agoIs your claim that all media is perfectly fungible so you don’t need to care about its content or origin and that media has no impact on your beliefs and psyche? That doesn’t sound reasonable to me.
- randombits0 4y agoNo, I’m saying folks can choose what media they want. Are you suggesting that some media is so evil its availability shouldn’t be tolerated? Yeah, no.
- rcme 4y agoNo, I'm not claiming that media is so evil it can't be tolerated. I'm claiming that there is a national security risk to letting an adversary control the information flow to the population. This has nothing to do with the contents of the media itself.
- randombits0 4y agoSo run back to Facebook. Or Instagram. Or YouTube. Or Telegram. Or Discord. Or Reddit. Or …
- UncleMeat 4y agoObviously that isn't the main issue here, since disabling TikTok on UT wifi does very little to stop people from actually using it.
- rcme 4y agoSo then what does disabling it accomplish?
- UncleMeat 4y agoPractically, nothing. It achieves geopolitical dick wagging, I guess. TikTok isn't a threat to networks. If it is any threat, it is a threat to users (and to a much lesser extent, to device managers). Disabling it on various networks is meaningless.
- mikrotikker 4y agoHow sure are you that it doesn't?
- UncleMeat 4y agoBecause the operating system controls that and you can tell the operating system to deny these features.
- lumb63 4y agoBut how do you know the OS is being honest? Or the hardware?
- UncleMeat 4y agoYou can build an app and test it yourself. It also isn't terribly difficult to extract the java side of the platform code.
- spoils19 4y agoHow can you trust that there isn't a backdoor that's not available to you?
- UncleMeat 4y agoLet me get this straight. You are saying that Google and Apple, in coordination with Bytedance, have introduced code into their operating systems to specifically permit apps signed with Bytedance's signing key to access these APIs without requesting permission. And that they must have done this in an especially sneaky way, given that, at least in the case of Android, the java layer of the code running on your device is trivial to inspect and the entire platform is available as open source. And absolutely nobody has noticed this, despite it being not an especially difficult thing for a security researcher to find (TikTok would need to be accessing an especially strange API since the ordinary APIs do checks in the java side on Android). And Google and Apple are doing this because... why? Is Bytedance paying them a shitload of money? Are their CEOs secret CCP plants? If you are concerned about this, how would even refusing to install TikTok protect you? After all, Google and Apple could simply collect the data directly in the OS and send it to Bytedance themselves.