{"id":9481,"date":"2019-12-22T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=abc4a37ce0686df110e4eac5ef881d60"},"modified":"2019-12-22T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T20:05:54","slug":"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-familybut-it-turns-out-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9481","title":{"rendered":"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\n\nBut it turns out that it&#8217;s actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/22\/us\/politics\/totok-app-uae.html&nbsp;&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1208841110405046272\">Twitter \/ swiftonsecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh huh.  My cynicism was half right; TikTok is an intelligence op, but by the UAE rather than the Chinese.<\/div><p lang=\"en\">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\n\nBut it turns out that it's actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/22\/us\/politics\/totok-app-uae.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/22\/us\/politics\/totok-app-uae.html&nbsp;&hellip;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ToTok, a messaging app that as of last week was one of the most popular in the Apple and Google sto&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}