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Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban by catsarebetter on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:31AM (#24118665)
Ah interesting, I think I remember Congress asking the tech CEOs if China stole data from the us shortly before the tik tok announcement, I wonder if there's a connection there.

But we use a ton of Chinese tech software and hardware outside of Tiktok, are they gonna ban them all?

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Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban by pulse7 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:37AM (#24120116)
A lost of Chinese hardware today doesn't send data back to China. An exception to that are mobile phones for some of which it has been proven to send data to China.
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Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban by MagnumOpus on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:50AM (#24120838)
> An exception to that are mobile phones

And tablets. And routers. And smart TVs. Which basically encompasses pretty much all of the network-connected appliances in the average home.

(And even if a "a lost" of the rest of IoT devices don't, would you want to bet your data security on it?)

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