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Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Post by Jaepa »

RavlaAlvar wrote: post #237
bigtones wrote: post #155

Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, got his phone hacked and embarrassing text messages stolen off it from a vulnerability in the video parsing library in WhatsApp in a message sent to him by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018. So Amazon as a company is now very sensitive to what applications are installed on staff devices and how data on those devices can be extracted from vulnerabilities in other installed apps. Th…

Does anyone have any technical detail of that story. It is hard to imagine how a bug in the image parse library can be utilise to steal text message.

Actually their pretty common. They are complex and generally fairly old interpreters that generally have system level access. Android have had a ton of them, but they are pretty universally common.

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Post by [deleted] »

cheonic729 wrote: post #95
chooseaname wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If any company expects me to access my work email while mobile, they have to provide a phone. I never mix work and personal. I've also never had a company say no to that.

> If any company expects me to access my work email while mobile, they have to provide a phone. No they don't. If you don't like it, switch employers.

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Post by nickthegreek »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #189
hdjrklt wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The discovery tab (For You) is awesome. Its the first social app where the discovery tab is better than your feed, so much more that you can actually use it without following anyone. It's quite addictive too, you can easily spend half an hour watching videos. The way the discovery tab works also created a meta game: Alt TikTok, Deep TikTok, Elite TikTok, ... The exclusivity aspect is there too, very few users are ove…

Can you give some examples of alt tiktok, deep tiktok, elite tiktok.

alt tiktok is mostly some counter culture users between the ages of 16 and 30. dyed hair, 90s influences, and lqbtq+ supportive. It's a whole aesthetic and rallies against "straight tiktok". You dont want to get stuck on a straight tiktok algorthmic FYP (for you page) feed. Other popular mini tiktok areas include frogtiktok and the holy grail, prison tiktok.

deep tiktok is weird video effect stuff, deep fried meme kinda stuff... I dont want it.

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Post by bonzini »

xendo wrote: post #228

For the context, as an Amazon employee I’m not required to access email from my mobile. The only app that I need to have is virtual pager and it doesn’t require allowing Amazon to administer my phone. Physical pagers are also an option.

Are they using work profiles on Android phones of employees that need mobile email access? It is a very good solution that lets the employer administer only a separate identity and gives them no access to personal stuff. The only global thing that the employer can do is enforce a certain level of security (for example requiring a PIN on the lock screen and data encryption).

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

This is an example why I don’t use Twitter regularly.

Someone mentions the copy/paste sec vuln in TikTok and “Onur Olmez” writes:

> LinkedIn app apparently also has this issue [...] Uncalled for to ban apps for this one reason.

I mean, wtf? Everybody on Twitter has an opinion about everything, even things they know nothing about.

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Post by xxpor »

goalieca wrote: post #154
dvt wrote: post #109

Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

You mean like vine? Twitter bought it and killed it. The founder moved on to launch Byte https://www.byte.co/

>Byte

Which is different from ByteDance, which is the company that owns TikTok, for those confused like me.

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Post by Aperocky »

xendo wrote: post #228

For the context, as an Amazon employee I’m not required to access email from my mobile. The only app that I need to have is virtual pager and it doesn’t require allowing Amazon to administer my phone. Physical pagers are also an option.

As a developer, I don't see why I need to be constantly alerted to emails. I check about once or twice per day for items that need to put on calendar but every/anything urgent is for the pager.

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Post by nickthegreek »

scohesc wrote: post #217
a13n wrote: post #172

I feel like this TikTok backlash is so overblown. I don't think TikTok is spying on US consumers/business, and I don't think TikTok is sharing any US private data with CCP... I believe this because there's no evidence to the contrary, and out of principle you shouldn't assume malintent. In fact, TikTok explicitly left Hong Kong because if they didn't they would have to share private data with CCP to comply with new l…

It's been admitted that tiktok actively suppresses content on peoples front pages that include visibly disabled users, "ugly" users, fat users, etc. etc. - anything that makes their image look "bad" in their eyes. Kind of goes against current shoe-horned American societal values of "everyone should be respected, regardless of who, what, how, when, where they are"

And they also came out to make changes to that system.

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Post by bonzini »

metaphorical wrote: post #236
a13n wrote: post #172

I feel like this TikTok backlash is so overblown. I don't think TikTok is spying on US consumers/business, and I don't think TikTok is sharing any US private data with CCP... I believe this because there's no evidence to the contrary, and out of principle you shouldn't assume malintent. In fact, TikTok explicitly left Hong Kong because if they didn't they would have to share private data with CCP to comply with new l…

TikTok left Hong Kong because HK is a tiny market, and they wouldn't want the PR backblash if they had to share HK data with CCP. There's evidence that Bytedance is not independent of CCP interferences though - such as the CEO's public statement in 2018 where he stated that Bytedance products should support "socialist core values" etc. https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...

Or maybe they left so that HK users must switch to the app for the Chinese-market, the one that definitely shares stuff with the CCP?...

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Post by moneil971 »

btashton wrote: post #140
paxys wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think any mid-large company allows 2 anymore. Access to company resources always comes with an MDM policy.

I don't get why people are OK with a company being able to wipe a personal device on a whim. If you want full control of my mobile, then provide a mobile.

Many companies do provide a mobile, but then your choice is to carry 2 devices, or let your company control the only device you carry and use all day for personal communication. I chose the former but even that’s not ideal
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