I'm just not seeing the threat that TikTok poses. Is there any explanation that contains evidence?
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@GossiTheDog to be fair, there's probably been very little data loss. In fact, I bet there are numerous copies now.
@eljefedsecurit that's what I think, too. When viewership is down, use the ol' standby: xenophobia.
I'm still keeping an open mind, but I haven't seen a shred of actual evidence yet. It usually boils down to TikTok = China = scary.
I repeatedly see "they can share your data!" But what data?
If you use the app to only *view* videos, the app requires no permissions. This is easily verified in Android's app-permission settings. If someone has evidence that TikTok has discovered a way around Android's permissions model, they should alert Google ASAP.
If you make videos, the app needs usual storage/camera permissions. And there is no evidence, to my knowledge, of the app siphoning off more local data than required. The app has certainly been under scrutiny, so I think that would have been discovered by researchers by now.
And finally, just about everything posted to TikTok is publicly available. If you upload a video to it, the world can see it. So what "secret data" would TikTok have?
@crh yep I had never seen the term before. I just assumed I was behind the times again.
@crh interesting. So is EDR generally considered to be a superset of EPP?
I have an insurance questionnaire asking if I have a deployed EPP.
I honestly have no idea.
Is Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, or the rest of A5 Security considered an EPP?
@crh compared to what? Once I have fiber, the price is $40.
Starlink prices are decreasing (and increasing). Can't wait till I have fiber and can drop this crap.
Can you limit SharePoint Online permissions here to a single SharePoint site, or is there another place where that granularity can be done?
@katzmandu it does, but you don't need WSL for it. OpenSSH runs natively.