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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by dlgeek on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:18AM (#23686810)
Could also be that they never expected this to blow up. If they were just doing it for fun, why bother taking backups? It seemed like when this first started making the rounds a few weeks ago, they were just talking about it in passing, but people kept asking questions and it became A Thing(tm)...but that may not have been the plan at the start.
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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by thih9 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:50AM (#23688083)
In this case it’s even more important to double check the findings.

It’s easy to misremember something, use shortcuts or assume too much when doing a hobby research project.

This is now more important than a random side project and it should be treated accordingly.

Just to make it clear, I’m not accusing anyone and I don’t suspect bad intentions; I’d just like to see as many details as possible.

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by kinleyd on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:49AM (#23688071)
<If they were just doing it for fun, why bother taking backups?>

Because the assertions being made are rather more serious?

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by brabel on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:56AM (#23689154)
> If they were just doing it for fun

They claim they weren't:

> tl;dr; I'm a nerd who figures out how apps work for a job.

Which makes the claims that he "lost the data" difficult to believe.

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by rowanG077 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:23PM (#23693095)
How does being a reverse engineer correlate with making backups of a hobby project which seemed to had outliven it's usefullness?
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