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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by alp1n3_eth on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:52AM (#42710724)
The backdoor named "backdoor", the l33t h4ck3rs strike again.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by marcosdumay on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:07AM (#42712633)
If it's for spying on Chinese people inside Chinese territory, there wouldn't be any need to hide it.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by glurblur on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:23AM (#42721620)
Nah, I don't buy it. Chinese as plenty of programmers who can read code as well as you. This dude is literally dumping symbols. There's no proof that it's actually a backdoor.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by marcosdumay on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:19AM (#42725414)
And those Chinese programmers can't talk to anybody about what they find.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by alp1n3_eth on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:41AM (#42749514)
It has been under heavy scrutiny by the security community for years, it would have already been found had it existed.
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