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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by jeffbee on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:48PM (#23691998)
Malice or just stupidity? I can imagine a dozen different reasons a program might access the clipboard in a loop, all of which reduce to "we are bad programmers".
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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by thewindow on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:56PM (#23692092)
Not all of them reduce to bad programmers. It could be either of malice or stupidity. In this age when data is valuable, it is better to be safe and assume malice.
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