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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by staticassertion on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:10PM (#32155722)
It doesn't have to be extremely easy, and it isn't extremely easy at every company. Twitter's security was bad, worse than it should have been for their size/ data footprint.

I do agree that data collection is at the core of the problem, but Twitter really should have done a better job.

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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by moralestapia on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:43PM (#32156931)
Read the article,

No amount of "security" is enough for an actor who wants to do this and has privileged to the data. This is almost impossible to out-engineer, if you think a company like Twitter cannot solve "such an easy problem" you're being naive.

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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by staticassertion on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @05:45PM (#32158395)
Not really sure what your point is. I did read the article. I didn't comment on TikTok, which would be legally required (and I am sure compliant, although they deny that in the article) to hand data over to the Chinese government. I commented on Twitter, which was hacked by amateurs, and absolutely could have been considerably harder as a target.
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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by moralestapia on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @06:01PM (#32158549)
My point is, you only need a rogue CTO (most of which have no actual idea of how technology works, i.e. an amateur) and it's over; or you know, any of the 10,000s of engineers currently employed on your favorite FAANG company.
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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by staticassertion on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @06:36PM (#32158892)
Weird point, I don't really get it.
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