glatt wrote:

I don;t access TikTok in a browser

If using a phone, same thing just has a different name.  They still connect many web sites to that phone.  Or what you think are only cookies.  Phone is just a computer. With the browser integrated into its OS.

BTW, that is what Bill Gates originally planned to do with Windows.  Turn it into one big browser.  You have zero reasons to believe software does anything different on phones.  A web site outputs different commands - still doing same thing.

Numerous concerns with Tik Tok.  Similar concerns are found in China.  They so fear some American web sites as to block them.  Called the Great Firewall of China.

UT once proclaimed the internet is virtual.  It cannot be stopped.  China and Russia have both proved that wrong.  American did something similar to Al Jazeera during the Mission Accomplished war.  Since Al Jazeera was reporting so accurately, exposing administration lies.   Al Jazeera offices then were missiled in both Afghanistan and Baghdad.

Anything one might think is secure is either not.  Or may no longer be.  People do not realize how enough innocuous information means significant harm can be done.  As one professional recently told me, he suspects all private medical records have been compromised. The unknown is by who.

We obstruct more obvious threats - such as Tik Tok.  The soft unbelly of Tik Tok security is top management.  And, as we all know, 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management.
 

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?
 

Carmen, a vehicle carrier, has just passed through the Francis Scott Key Bridge security zone on its way to the Panama Canal. Escorted by may tugs and at least one Coast Guard boat.

A last major section of that bridge was removed (surprisingly at night) just a few days ago by the Chesapeake 1000 crane.  Opening the north side of a Federal Channel.

At least three bulk carriers and three Navy supply ships might be shallow enough to follow.

I suspect this has happened ahead of schedule.
 

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.

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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.
 

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.

 

Anon wrote:

Far out, man.

Plagiarizing Tommy Chong.

Could he have trademarked it?

 

Major strides have recently been made in understanding Parkinson's.  It is caused by common viruses such as herpes, influenza, hepatitis, etc.  The immune system learns to attack those.  But that response then sees nerve sheaths as similar.  Attacks them.

Genetic research is now ongoing to teach the immune system to not attack that protein structure.

 

Earlier that week, an Israeli Colonel was avidly and aggressively denying that people in Gaza were starving.  He insisted they were all well fed.  Said so angrily.   Central Kitchen was feeding 170,000 people a day.  How does that feed 1.5 million people.

This murder occurred in an area save and under Israeli control.  Three separate vehicles all spaces almost a mile apart.  Well marked.  But they were feeding Palestinians.  Israeli right wing extremist attitudes are always quite apparent.

Extremists then said they saw, from the drone, a Hamas fighter get into one of the vehicles.  That justified all attacks?  Of course,  If one is an extremist.

International law says an invading army must take care of civilian refugees.  Instead, right wing Lukid extremists herded them all into the same battlefield that contained Hamas.  No accident.  Then massacring Palestinians civilians is legal - according to a vague definition in international law.

Israelis could have herded civilians into safe areas.  Inspecting all for no weapons.  But that means Israelis are not doing ethnic cleansing.  Likud says the Palestinians should go back where they came from.  Exact same concept promoted in the deep American south to justify hate and violence against blacks.

Israel today says all food delivery occur without restrictions.  Not even one aid agency agrees.  Even the UN says that is a lie.  But then lying is routine with Likud - the Nazi party of Israel.  Likud clearly intends to steal the entire West Bank,  And openly says a two state solution will never exist.  Likud is the party of hate.  And so corrupt as to even subvert and disband the Israeli Supreme Court.

Is Likud doing anything to rescue hostages?  Of course not.  They never tried.  As long as hostages are held and murdered (even by Israeli planes), then Likud will be more popular.

Three Israelis escaped from their Palestinian prison.  Hid out for three days.  Had Yiddish words for help pai

They no longer have to list all the presidents since Washington.  No wonder we now have so many immigrants.
 

Too far away.  Out of sight; out of mind.  They do not even get an eclipse.  Not worth mentioning until China attacks.
 

Never ignore a real threat.  Neo-Nazis.  Racists.  Right wing extremist conservatives.  Gun fanatics.  Then call themselves patriotic.  Jack Teixeira did more that Trump in leaking biggest national secrets.  Just as bad are so many who knew it and said nothing.  Thousands more dead in Ukraine probably resulted.  Major (most secret) intelligence techniques compromised.

As Jack says, "I don't care."

When it comes to honesty, Frontline is a 'must read' to everyone in the free world.  To appreciate how many in America are among America's enemies.
  The Discord Leaks.

We know Trump shared highly classified documents for an Iran invasion with most anyone in Mara Lago  long after he was no longer president.  And after he was ordered to return them to high security archives.  Instead, he even ordered employees to hide them.

Who really is a greatest threat.  Tik Tok is one.  But many Americans so hate the country as to not recognized greatest threats.  Extremist mindsets that create that threat.  (As if we did not learn from the Mission Accomplished war.)

What was he doing before finally captured?  Reading the Bible.  As if he was righteous.  This Frontline piece is required knowledge.