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Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices by kardos on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:25PM (#21852865)
How would restricted network access help? If you permit a dodgy app to talk to only one remote endpoint, it can exfiltrate whatever it wants.
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Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices by angry_octet on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:00PM (#21854401)
Why would a flashlight app need to talk to the internet at all?

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