Essential The Locker Room's Random Thoughts

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I’m in line at the dispensary buying gummies, and two old white men are talking about the Irish coming over here being the dirt. I have a feeling this conversation is about to turn racist on some, “Everyone had it bad”

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Finally a day to sleep in. I'm still in the bed.


I'm not getting up till 3.

 

[MajesticLion]

TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app heats up

But would banning TikTok mean your data is any safer?

mashable.com

TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app heats up​

But would banning TikTok mean your data is any safer?


TikTok is entering a world of pain right now, having just released a damning report about its own employees obtaining the data of U.S. users. Since this report comes at a time when a key cohort of Americans wants to ban the app altogether, you should expect TikTok to become a major political talking point as the 2024 election cycle ramps up.

On Thursday, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, released the results of an internal investigation. Yes, ByteDance confirmed, four of its employees in China scooped up the data of two TikTok accounts belonging to U.S. journalists. And TikTok really, really wasn’t supposed to do that.

The report is emboldening high-profile enemies of TikTok like Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, whose bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government devices passed in the Senate a little over a week ago. That bill still needs to pass in the House of Representatives to become law, but statewide bans of TikTok on government devices are already the law in Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Utah, West Virginia, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, Nebraska, and Montana.


Crucially, the report doesn’t contain similarly damning details about what was done with the data. It likely wasn’t printed out, clipped into a dossier, and handed to Xi Jinping himself, if that’s what you’re imagining. It seems instead, a handful of ByteDance employees who were on the lookout for internal leakers managed to find the user data and IP addresses of U.S. reporters in an ultimately thwarted — but demonically clever — effort to see if ByteDance employees suspected of leaking were ever physically near the journalists. That didn't end up happening, and everyone involved in this effort was fired, supposedly.


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[Neo. The Only. The One.]

 

[Kuma the Bear]

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[Hijo de luna]

It took over a decade but I'm here. I'm happy

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

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[Hijo de luna]

I'm not going to go out looking for a pet right now but if a dog or cat chooses me I won't resist

 

[Dance_Like_A_Fiend]

These glasses are LUCKY. I am not taking them off.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

This website is very weird.

There's a bunch of emotional dudes on here.

No wonder older posters have left.

Taking a break from here.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Luh You Coli Fam

 

[Thelonious Napz]

 

[Sad Bunny]

 

[Ol’Otis]

I fukk with this