Just keep in mind that the Ukrainians were able to track and off a Russian officer by gaining access to his 'Fitbit' to survey his training habits and running routesWhile i agree to an extent, its the parents job to monitor your children and keep an eye on what they are doing. My daughters cell phone is linked to mine. I open an app and it shows every app she has accessed and how much time. I can look at her messages, phone calls, and search history from my phone. Helicopter parent? Maybe.
I dont think spying on a guy dancing to justin bieber on tiktok is a huge threat, especially when the government has done nothing about a congressman banging a chinese spy. We are going to ban tiktok but allow a member of government to sleep with a spy?
Always be skeptical of our government. I think since tiktok is not owned by a US company, they cannot force them to delete posts and control the information it allows, and they cant allow people to have the freedom to share information, so they banned it. They can control facebook. Look at the 2020 election and covid, how many posts were forced to be removed and flagged as misinformation… i truly believe that is why they banned it.
Hunter Biden is snorting coke off of a chinese spys belly button while sleepy Joe is misplacing documents all over the country and a congressman is sleeping with a chinese spy… that seems more of a threat than a guy browsing tik tok while sitting on the toilet.
What could an adversary do if they can identify the children of a military or government official (which isn't very hard with location data) and then target the parents for direct action - especially since an unknown number of adversary fifth columnists have already poured across the border
Remember that in 2013 Snowden said the only way he would trust that the microphone or camera on a smart phone was really off would be if he took a soldering iron and disabled it himself. Tik Too would give an adversary a way to intercept data in and around the homes of its users. The CCP also employs hackers who are allowed to steal money at will as long as they also do black hat work for the state. They could use access gained through backdoors built into updates in order to create chaos as well
It seems stupid to lecture people on how to avoid phishing and malware while online but then allow them to maintain an open portal to some very lawless operators
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