ToTok, a messaging app that as of last week was one of the most popular in the Apple and Google stores, is billed as a secure way to chat by video/text message with friends/family But it turns out that it’s actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html …

Source: Twitter / swiftonsecurity

Article note: Oh huh. My cynicism was half right; TikTok is an intelligence op, but by the UAE rather than the Chinese.

ToTok, a messaging app that as of last week was one of the most popular in the Apple and Google stores, is billed as a secure way to chat by video/text message with friends/family But it turns out that it's actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html …

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  1. Matthew says:

    “ToTok” rather than “TikTok” in this case, so you’re probably still right about TikTok being a Chinese spying tool.

    • pappp says:

      I realized that after I read a little further. It’s getting hard to tell generic statrtup names apart.

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