Interesting, I could see that damaging people

Anyone find it suspicious how much Synopsis d*** eats China?

damn lil huddy gon be sick

I’ll share some insights on TikTok that don’t look pretty. Important to consider if we're talking about whether TikTok is just as bad as other social media apps. Not sure if its already been posted somewhere. Some computer scientist reverse engineered TikTok and found some nasty s***. Lots of text here, I’ll highlight the key stuff.

First heard this a week ago on Joe Budden Podcast episode 358 where Joe reads aloud the scientist’s message:

“So I can personally weigh in on this. I reverse-engineered the app, and feel confident in stating that I have a very strong understanding for how the app operates (or at least operated as of a few months ago).

TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it. • Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc) • Other apps you have installed (I've even seen some l've deleted show up in their a***ytics payload - maybe using as cached value?) • Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name) • Whether or not you're rooted/jailbroken …

The scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they're doing is remotely configurable, and unless you reverse every single one of their native libraries (have fun reading all of that assembly, assuming you can get past their customized fork of OLLVM!!!) and manually inspect every single obfuscated function. They have several different protections in place to prevent you from reversing or debugging the app as welI. App behavior changes slightly if they know you're trying to figure out what they're doing. There's also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary. There is zero reason a mobile app would need this functionality legitimately.

They provide users with a taste of "virality" to entice them to stay on the platform. Your first TikTok post will likely garner quite a bit of likes, regardless of how good it is.. assuming you get past the initial moderation queue if thats still a thing. Most users end up chasing the dragon. Oh, there's also a ton of creepy old men who have direct access to children on the app, and I've personally seen (and reported) some really suspect stuff. 40-50 year old men getting 8-10 year old girls to do "duets" with them with sexually suggestive songs. Those videos are posted publicly. TikTok has direct messaging functionality.

Here's the thing though... they don't want you to know how much information they're collecting on you, and the security implications of all of that data in one place, en masse, are f***ing huge. They encrypt all of the a***ytics requests with an algorithm that changes with every update (at the very least the keys change) just so you can't see what they're doing. They also made it so you cannot use the app at all if you block communication to their a***ytics host off at the DNS-level.

For what it's worth l've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It's like comparing a cup of water to the ocean they just don't compare.”

if by d***eats you mean being reasonable and not being a sinophobic sheep, then no, we don't.

Who are you again?

Synop alt

ah yes, the most idiotic response you can come up with on an internet forum. congrats, moron

TIkTokers gonna become janitors

#LEARN2CODE

Been learning web dev since covid season started

Why would you think that lol

i'm just not really sure what the point of the post was, it just seems like a false equivalence. like are you pro-free market and think big companies should be able to do whatever they want outside of consequence? like yes, obviously the reasoning behind the banning of tiktok is not ironclad ideally and it should also be applied to other companies in the US which domestically do similar things, but that doesnt nullify the context
there's definitely a big overlap in people who want government intervention on FB/Twitter/etc. who also celebrating this re: tiktok, so i just don't get what the point is. it's not like it's ancaps celebrating this or something where it'd be direct philosophical hypocrisy.

Basically I think its hypocritical for ppl to be celebrating the banning of Tiktok while also complaining about cancel culture

I also am not oblivious to the fact a lot of the support for this is marked by sinophobia. Personally I'd love for big tech to be broken up for other reasons. If tiktok is even big tech idk

i don't get the correlation there at all; i'm also not trying to fight here or anything, I just do not think your points are as strong as you think they are.

while there is definitely an aspect of hypocrisy to many prominent people who are "anti-cancel culture" which I'll give to you ofc (i.e. Bari Weiss from NYT), the vast majority of people who are anti-cancel culture are really anti-mob justice; i.e. they dislike the idea of speech being linked to ability to participate in society. now, whether or not this is an issue is a separate debate to had another time - however I think most of us could at least agree this is only an issue because of the interconnected and false dependencies on established systems which exist because of capitalism. with that said, i don't see how tiktok is related to cancel culture. people formulate tik tok is a threat to national security and therefore want them to not be. if you want to argue it isn't a security threat and it's overblown, then sure, okay, that's an okay debate to have, but it's not anything to do with cancel culture.

regarding the sinophobic comment, you really have to be careful with that, because you're bordering on "criticism of israel is antisemitic" rhetoric, which i am sure you do not agree with. just because a country is governed by an ethnicity does not mean criticism of the government is intrinsically criticism of the ethnicity. i am also not oblivious there are just some people who are racist to the chinese, sure, of course (esp. post-COVID) - that's undeniable. but trying to ward off all criticism of a country's government to somethign tied to ethnicity is dangerous. there are legitimate criticisms of their government even the furthest left people here would agree about. this also does not nullify the fact that the US is bad either; but again, two wrongs do not make a right.
i will note however, that i agree with you if the people are advocating that we need to go into china and tear down their government, there's a problem with that; likewise however, I think there is an issue if the reverse is advocated too. i am also not interested in playing a chicken or the egg game in that regard, as it's just fruitless in these conversations. should china ban US investments there too? i mean, probably, yeah. but they can't complain much about us doing it.

Niggas writing college papers on this page

Out

Downloaded and deleted the same day after i scrolled past way too many provocative videos

You damn right i dont actually use that app. I dont have that ccp spyware on my phone

@Synopsis

Thats actually a thing?

I've said plenty of times I dont fw any government nor do I care for the ccp

But I just think it's weird that some ppl consider them any more untrustworthy than our own government

You would think that would be obvious.
Crazy how out of all the wild s*** you say, this is what catches peoples attention

Have u seen their reported covid numbers?

Ppl acting like the ccp cant be trusted with anything, BECAUSE THEY CANT.

Is what it is lol never cared too much about it