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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by 27fingies on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:34AM (#35368491)
> the tiktok android binary had the capability to receive code remotely and execute it

you mean like a browser?

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by schmuelio on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:11AM (#35371399)
Like basically every browser-based app, so electron apps as well as most android apps.

From my understanding iPhone apps work slightly differently but I sincerely doubt that it's not common place in that space as well.

I'm not saying that it's definitely completely fine, but it _is_ really common in that space.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by aardvarkr on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:21AM (#35372260)
Like an app that can update itself over the air
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