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TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« on: July 21, 2020, 05:14:26 AM »
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2020, 06:10:53 AM »
Secretly?  Suddenly?

I think those words do not mean what Apple thinks they mean.
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2020, 08:48:44 AM »
More like they're suddenly trying to figure out how it got out and how to spin it.
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2020, 09:10:31 AM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 21, 2020, 08:48:44 AM
More like they're suddenly trying to figure out how it got out and how to spin it.
The idea that TikTok was spying on phones was out almost as soon as TikTok was created.  I think Apple is concerned about Trump's recent executive order and the consequences of helping China spy on their users. 
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2020, 09:18:10 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on July 21, 2020, 09:10:31 AM
The idea that TikTok was spying on phones was out almost as soon as TikTok was created.  I think Apple is concerned about Trump's recent executive order and the consequences of helping China spy on their users. 

I'm on the verge of just describing big tech as "disgusting". They let themselves be run by their commie workforce, who tells them they're not allowed to partner with the US government and military because of how evil the US is, but then partnering with China and Chinese companies, where pretty much every entity is linked to Chinese government intelligence, is just hunky dory.
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2020, 09:25:20 AM »
Quote from: HeroHog on July 21, 2020, 05:14:26 AM
Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/

Apple is just pissed that TikTok is doing it better than they are.

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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2020, 04:35:17 PM »
Since we KNOW the ChiComs are spying through TikTok, perhaps we can feed them some disinformation?  >:D
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2020, 04:48:38 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on July 21, 2020, 09:10:31 AM
The idea that TikTok was spying on phones was out almost as soon as TikTok was created.  I think Apple is concerned about Trump's recent executive order and the consequences of helping China spy on their users.  

A rather large % of Apple product users live in a universe of blissful unawareness. When something like this actually does manage to get through to them they can be quite panicky  
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2020, 07:13:20 PM »
Quote from: HankB on July 21, 2020, 04:35:17 PM
Since we KNOW the ChiComs are spying through TikTok, perhaps we can feed them some disinformation?  >:D

Haven't we already led the ChiComs to believe America is simply overrun with ghosts?
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2020, 08:40:55 PM »
I think the two words that best describe this would now  "no *expletive deleted*it?"

Who saw that coming?
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Re: TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users!
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2020, 10:59:11 AM »
Last time I was on a Zoom meeting, I waved and said "I just wanted to say "Hi" to the Chinese government."

But nobody but me laughed.  =(
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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2020, 11:19:42 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on July 22, 2020, 10:59:11 AM
Last time I was on a Zoom meeting, I waved and said "I just wanted to say "Hi" to the Chinese government."

But nobody but me laughed.  =(

And every one of the other folks in the meeting had a car ever so slightly above their means, a house ever so slightly above their means, kids in private schools or foreign schools, and classy shoes a little bit above their means.  And a boat.

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