Why is TikTok different?

"When I access nytimes.com, more than 40 connections are made.
So New York Times is bad and we should ban New York Times, right?
 

glatt wrote:

So TikTok loads 100 programs before it opens in my phone?  Surely you can give me a citation for that.

How many IP addresses does you phone or computer access?  For many web sites, that number was as much as 50.  Then some foolishly assumed their computer was getting slow due to age.  Computers never get slower.  But wild speculation promoted that myth.

I have now seen almost 100 different IP addresses when some websites are opened.

When I access cellar.boardhost.com, I still see only one.  When I access nytimes.com, more than 40 connections are made.

Why post denials?  Nothing new here.  And BTW, part of what the EU is complaining about.  Including the many ads related to what you accessed somewhere else - previously.  You apparently do not know how many web sites are routinely connecting to your phone.  Only know that a faster computer or phone is necessary with age.  Do not know why.

Is suspect this number is still less than 100. Since too many IP addresses means a browser might time out.  When computers get faster, I suspect that numbers will increase.

Why do you not know this?
 

glatt wrote:

Wait.  So Equifax was hacked and so TikTok is bad? Huawei is bad, so TikTok is bad?

I should not have to post what is obvious.  Demonstrated by so many similar examples.  Even professionals cite the threat.  But somehow, denials prove professionals wrong?

Equifax security was only incompetence.  Therefore an easy hack.  Tik Tok security would be massively less when owners control it (for malicious purposes).  Even demonstrated is how malicious purposes can gain access even to your computer - without your knowledge.

 Why is logic so immune?  Apparently "I feel is must be safe so it must be safe" is bogus reasoning.  Explains silly claims that Tik Tok needs no security.  Since everyone personal information is always readily available to Putin.

Apparently you do not even know that encrypted data obviously and no longer provides sufficient security. Why do you not even know that?  But then somehow feel you know Tik Tok must be safe.

All they need do is download today encrypted files from your alma mater to then have access to your secure information in maybe a decade.  Obviously no security exists when top management lacks grasp of technology  (ie Equifax) OR has malicious intent (ie owners of Tik Tok).  Tik Tok is only a tiny example of a much larger threat.

Please stop ignoring this glaring example.  Why is Huawei a threat and Tik Tok is not?  Stop wasting time posting bogus denials.  Contribute facts.   Why is one not a threat when it has more access to individuals and no interest in security. Huawei would have same or less access.  But is a major threat.

Why do professional say something that only speculation denies?  Where are facts?  So many examples already demonstrate this threat.  Next time contribute something useful.  Not a tweet; a denial.  The ten paragraphs are necessary to demonstrate minimal knowledge.  Every 'so called shit' is clearly an example of how security is compromised and why it can have dev

Wait.  So Equifax was hacked and so TikTok is bad? Huawei is bad, so TikTok is bad?

It's so hard to follow you.  I honestly want to learn something if you have anything to say, but your are just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.

So TikTok loads 100 programs before it opens in my phone?  Surely you can give me a citation for that.

Flint wrote:

How is TikTok worse/different than Facebook?

Many secure facilities bans all access to Facebook.  Even though Facebook is not geared to intentionally subvert secure data.  The problem with Tik Tok is who still controls / has access to web site software.   At least Facebook would (should) have some security controls.  No such thing need exist in Tik Tok.

Owners can install any malicious software without Tik Tok employee knowledge.  Same technical reasons that Huawei also is banned.  Why is Tik Tok any more secure than Huawei?  Apparently some here think it is.

Conclusions only from speculation have ignored why so many data breaches occur.  Even information from Tik Tok can be used to break into your electric company accounts.  Because (and if) so much information about you can be gleaned from TikTok.

How did they literally strip everyone's data from Equifax?  Equifax might as well have been run by Chinese agents.  Head of computer security and then of all security was a music major from Stamford.  Swore up and down that security was tight.  People are not talking much about how that was done.  Since it could be done elsewhere again.  Using information that naive people considered innocuous - trivial. Combines with incompetent (or intentionally subversive) management.

The first step in compromising massive secure data - get access to people's personal information.  Eough of it and necessary patterns exist.

Why did parents of Sandy Hook victims have to move seven times and cannot visit their dead son's grave?  Once simple information wasobtained, then Alex Jones and other malicious (anti-American) characters had enough information to keep chasing them / harassing them.  By simply having much innocuous information that had already been obtained.  One example is simply to know what college one went to. By itself, insufficient.  But with a massive amount of other data, sufficient to even get a social security number.

Of thos

How?  How can TikTok get my electric bill and empty my bank account?

give me a step by step.

They know who I am and that I like to watch certain videos.  How does that lead to my bank account?

Flint wrote:

Imminent threat to what? 

Read it again.  Apparently everything about you, known to all others, means you are still safe?  Data, that you think is innocuous, is sufficient to harm you or to even compromise this nation's security.  If enough innocuous data is collected.

How many knew their bank accounts could be stripped clean by simply obtaining account numbers from an electric company, birthday dates, and other seemingly irrelevant materials?  Much of your safety and this nation's safety was due to information and numbers that was too difficult to find.  Tik Tok is a platform that makes that easy.  For the same reason Huawei also puts personal safety national security at risk.

And then it gets even worse.  Encrypted information (even from your college records), that was expected to be secure for hundreds of years, will soon be cracked in seconds.  All they need do now is download the encrypted files today.  Then in maybe ten years, read it as if it was always public information.

You should know of these potential and maybe 100 other future  and possible threats now.  That is what the people who learn this stuff appreciate.

Did you even know encrypted data, downloaded today, will sometime in the near future even decrypted that quickly?  If not, then you have no idea has massive that possible threat is.

Only 20 years ago, nobody was concern about encrypting even access to web sites.  Now is it unacceptable (in most transactions) to not have such access always encrypted.

Do you know that many web sites now connect your computer to up to 100 different internet addresses before it puts up you requested information?  What restriction protects you when you access their web site?

Previous posted example should have made all this above obvious.  Or at minimum, suspected.
 

Data can be compromised as long as it exists, so therefore we have to ban this one specific successful social app.

As Flint said: "Here's the reality: EVERY app on the internet gathers tons of personal data. EVERYONE could get that data, by simply purchasing it from data brokers."

Newsmax (for those outside North America, that is the new Fox News) is declaring riots and violence ongoing on American college campuses. Their pundits are even complaining that Biden has not called out the National Guard.

They know how dumb their believers are.  President does not call up a National Guard.  And peaceful 'rioter' do not need a military dictatorship that Trump has been calling for.

Amazing how students, who rightly criticize the Nazi Likud party, are somehow anti-Semitic.

They opened fire on demonstrators in Kent State.  Not one solder was even investigated by firing live rounds.  Some who were kiiled were even and only on their way to class.  But then right means right.

There is a serious shortage of moderates.

 

Ever wonder how fast your car goes? No speed traps if all the state troopers are at the demonstrations.  Have fun on the highways.