Doesn't matter, they have it on their personal phone.
App security is so bad that you pretty much need to virtualize the phone and feed it fake sensor data. The whole idea of unrestricted network access is stupid.
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#22and then a Chinese company buys an American app that already has all the data
By now, I'd be relatively certain that all but the absolute blackest sites are mapped comprehensively with publicly available app data.
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#23and then a Chinese company buys an American app that already has all the data
US Congress has the authority to block such acquisitions.
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#24and then a Chinese company buys an American app that already has all the data
By now, I'd be relatively certain that all but the absolute blackest sites are mapped comprehensively with publicly available app data.
An American financial service that I had multiple accounts with was just bought by a Chinese organization. There was nothing obscure about the service nor was there publicly available data about my accounts.
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#25and then a Chinese company buys an American app that already has all the data
By now, I'd be relatively certain that all but the absolute blackest sites are mapped comprehensively with publicly available app data.
wouldn't surprise me if the military makes you strip naked, put your clothes in a microwave, then put them back on before getting on the plane to the black site. Each and every time.
Anything less than such ridiculous methods would be insecure. You can literally embed chips in the fabric of your clothing. https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11587
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#26Why's "ban" needed?
Government should have full control over government issued devices and only whitelisted modifications should be allowed.
If it's not this way - someone at government should be held accountable for jeopardizing the security of the nation.
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#29Not surprising. For several days now TikTok has left the information of 700 million of their users available via an open S3 bucket. It is online now at this very moment and includes IDFAs from Apple as well as interestingly, although I bet American companies do this to, the MAC Addresses. This is significant because my understanding is that Apple rotates / randomizes the MAC address because those can be used to, quite effectively, track individuals anywhere in the world (I would say it is better than GPS often at this point, especially indoors). Storage is cheap so maybe everyone stores them these days, or perhaps someone has found how to guess the rotation pattern (completely unproven theory that is likely wrong but only thing I can think of).
The coverage that Skyhook claims to have for instance is extraordinary considering this is totally reliant on Wifi points and cell towers: https://www.skyhook.com/Coverage-Map
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#30I first read this as banning Twitter from all government devices and thought it was an early Christmas present for America.