Imagine the worms put on phones of employees of various tech companies - specifically datacenter employees in various commerical and government agencies - recall the STRAVA scandal which revealed secret military bases...
The TikTok angle is like stuxnet for that type of corporate/gov espionage....
Its ludicris how poorly the USG has handled this.
But then again, you have so many people in congress with dual citizenship (which should be illegal and a capital crime IMO)
but then look at the spouses of lawmakers, their investments, their citizenship, their network ranking over the time their spouce was in congress, and their kids...
FFS we are still arguing over Biden's ties to money laundering in Ukraine and China, but we dont talk about the GOAT of grifters ; Mitch McConnell?
the CCP has more backdoors into the USG than they do with just TikTok ... and lets not even talk about Israel's backdoors which are actually a front-door-fire-hose.
The US government is and has always been reactive, not proactive.
About the most forward-thinking the US gets is writing the occasional contingency plan. Everything else is done in haste once a serious problem becomes plainly obvious to everyone, and people (deep-pocketed ones especially) start screaming to their elected representatives to fucking do something about it. Then and only then do the gears start to turn.
Sam - we've been asking you for years not to break the site guidelines, let alone this badly. We've cut you as much slack as anyone in the history of this site. I don't want to ban you but the slack is definitely going to run out someday. No more, please.
The TikTok angle is like stuxnet for that type of corporate/gov espionage....
Its ludicris how poorly the USG has handled this.
But then again, you have so many people in congress with dual citizenship (which should be illegal and a capital crime IMO)
but then look at the spouses of lawmakers, their investments, their citizenship, their network ranking over the time their spouce was in congress, and their kids...
FFS we are still arguing over Biden's ties to money laundering in Ukraine and China, but we dont talk about the GOAT of grifters ; Mitch McConnell?
the CCP has more backdoors into the USG than they do with just TikTok ... and lets not even talk about Israel's backdoors which are actually a front-door-fire-hose.