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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:46PM (#42714348)
If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser until they withdrew completely from the American market.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by scotty79 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:00PM (#42714577)
> If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser

We don't?

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:42PM (#42715169)
With the goal of driving them out of the US?

I just typed https://www.baidu.com into my browser bar, hit enter, and their page loaded.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by scotty79 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:52PM (#42716777)
Why throw out something hackable? Apparently they couldn't hack TikTok so they thrown them out.
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:05AM (#42726216)
They probably could, but it's become such a pain in the ass, it's no longer worth it.

You can still go to the mobile web version; but that doesn't give the same level of access to devices and data that an app does.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by amrocha on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:57PM (#42714525)
Have you heard of the NSA
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by lenerdenator on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:43PM (#42715179)
I'm not saying we don't hack them.

I'm saying we don't hack them with the goal of driving them out of the American market, which is what happened to Google's PRC operations.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by protimewaster on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:05PM (#42720578)
We hacked Huawei and drove them out, but those were separate incidents. I'm not convinced it puts the US in a morally superior position, though.
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