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Penny Arcade - Comic - Tik Tok Toe
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Tik Tok Toe
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I think a lot of people's logic is that, "Well if they really want this I'm posting it publicly anyway so what's the difference?" Privacy invasion has been normalized to the point that we don't even question when Google starts giving is ads for that website you were talking to coworkers about yesterday, letting a foreign intelligence service get first dibs barely even registers as a threat anymore.
Got any information about this? I've been avoiding TikTok on principle, but I'm curious what the actual threat is like.
Joke's on them though, nobody using tiktok has any assets to their name!
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/?context=1
Basically, anything on your phone they can collect from you. Anything. And can access any part of your phone at any time.
LineageOS Android's Privacy Guard has explicit permission toggles for clipboard reads and clipboard writes and can be used on a per-application basis. Highly recommend it as your mobile OS if you're going to run "dubious" apps (such as any social media app).
Integrated computer architechture, maybe?
TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and the phrase "interior crocodile alligator" is from a song (see below, the rapper is talking about his car being refinished in reptile hide) that got popular again via TikTok. But the US Government has certainly made efforts in this vein before, like the time the FBI tried to get all the computer security software companies to include a backdoor for them to insert spyware on people's devices without their knowledge or consent (it was called something like Magic Lantern, or Lantern Fish?), and had to have it explained to them that any such liability would be accessible to foreign and criminal hackers as well.
I'm not sure which I'm more bothered by: The general inanity of the song itself or not realizing crocs and gators are not the same animal.
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Well, for one, private corporations aren't bound by the Fourth Amendment. The US government is supposed to be, problem is there's nothing stopping going to those private companies for the data they (the companies) keep on you.
In any rate, TikTok is owned by the Chinese government, who definitely don't GAF.
Another source, may be referenced in the reddit too:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-ios-apps-still-snoop-your-sensitive-clipboard-data/
And even if it were owned by the US government, a whole fucking lot of "rights" can be unknowingly waived if you agree to let the government in when not compelled to do so. This can go to incredible extremes, like the woman who gave police the key to her front door so they could search for a guy who wasn't there, and they breached the door with grenades and expended so much tear gas into the buildings that the lot became a Superfund site.
The best case scenario after a million people get their faces stolen by Totally Not NSA's new vlog app is qualified immunity. The more likely case is currently playing out in Europe after police took over EncroChat.
If it helps, that (as I recall) is actually freestyle, so pretty solid for coming up with it on the fly.
I would never have noticed that in a million years if it wasn't pointed out to me. haha
Even when I went back to check it out, I had to think about it for a bit to confirm that one thumb was indeed on the wrong side.
EDIT: I think it's just because Gabe has a kind of twisted pose that makes it harder to notice. If I were to look at my avatar and both of Homer's thumbs were going out of the same side of his hands, I would probably notice that. It just not as obvious in this comic. Also, did he fix it? I just looked at it again and I think it's right now... lol
-Tycho Brahe
Enh, I'm not defending Tik Tok, but it seems like this might be weak criticism since it seems to be rife with apps that don't need it:
https://wccftech.com/ios-14-exposes-apps-that-spy-on-your-clipboard-data/
Now, I'm not saying Bed Bath & Beyond aren't secretly run by the Russian spy apparatus, but I'm not saying this is the smoking gun.
I mean, it's right in front of our faces...what did you think the "Beyond" part really meant?
They listen in your bed
They listen in your bath
All sent to the great beyond
It's really a clever name. They could include all kinds of secret things in their merchandise and then if they are called on it they can just say it was included in the "beyond" part of the business. The consumer has been warned! lol
-Tycho Brahe
Sure if you're a square.
Crate & Barrel is the only way to live.
Hmm.. Barrels.
Or it could be the work of tycho's stand crazy chocobo.