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  Pardon my ignorance, but what is Tik Tok actually doing?  How is it a threat to a network?  Doesn't a phone's security stop it from accessing other nodes on the local network?
context: I thought the whole state of Utah banned it for a second... >
  
  Give it about 2 months. >
  
  "What is wired?"
  - my 19-year-old co-worker >
  
  It was magazine. I mean, a mini-book with pictures. A monthly blog printed on paper, if you will... A blog is a tiktok with words. No not the narrator. >
  
  No, more like:  Greg Abbott allows Chinese firms to buy up vast swaths of Texan farmland, oilfields and water aquifers and then blames it on "the Biden Administration" >
  
  Not true, China owns less than 1 % of foreign countries invested farmland in the US. Doubt that 1% is all in Texas.
  Edit: Corrected to 1% instead of 0.25%
  Edit 2: USDA reported that foreign individuals and entities held an interest in 37.6 million acres of U.S. agricultural land at the end of 2020, representing 2.9% of all privately held agricultural land and 1.7% of all land in the U.S.  Canadian investors own the largest share of foreign-held land in the U.S., 12.4 million acres, making up 32% of all foreign investments, followed by the Netherlands with 13%, Italy with 7% and the U.K with 6%.  Chinese investors hold 352,140 acres of American land, representing slightly less than 1% of total foreign ownership. >
  
  I wonder what a dot of .24% of the United States would look like. >
  
  If I did my math correctly; it would be roughly the size of New Hampshire. 
  The US has a total land area of 3.797 million sq miles. 
  .24% of 3,797,000 is 9112.8 sq miles
  New Hampshire is 9,349 sq miles >
  
  When you have an operating nuclear reactor and the data associated with it and research done with it on your network, I can see why you wouldn't want China using backdoors via tiktok into your network.  
  Edit: The number of shadow banned responses I'm getting is truly hilarious. >
  
  There's almost no way that there's data associated with the nuclear reactor going over the main camous UT network lol >
  
  True, but how much would you trust the compartmentalization of their individual networks? >
  
  Pretty well, considering the risk, and I'm sure they already ban the majority of social media/etc from being used inside. >
  
  Unless they keep their research on local-only networks that have zero connection to the internet, I wouldn't trust access to any of the networks in the system. There are too many ways for interconnection from network to network.  
  Edit: I wouldn't trust allowing a known Chinese government spying software access to any network in the system* >
  
  Not sure what UT does, but that's exactly what the Navy does. >
  
  I trust the Navy slightly more than I trust any state run entity in Texas >
  
  I only trust the Navy to have never hooked them up to the internet at all.
  I picture them using IBM punch cards. >
  
  Admiral Adama has entered the chat. >
  
  so say we all! >
  
  It’s wild how many people don’t care about their data and privacy. I’ve told my sister in law numerous times about this and she, a 20 something year old, doesn’t care or understand.
  Anyways, I have no problem with government / corporate issued devices or networks not allowing KNOWN unsafe and insecure apps, websites, etc. the general public really needs a serious lesson in cyber security. >
  
  If you're in an important secure job or having things like financial information get out, yeah but a person posting "Hey guys, having a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese for my six year old kid Devin" is not going to seriously harm the majority of people, what do you think malicious actors in the Chinese government or Facebook could realistically do with that? Nobody in China is looking at a trending TikTok dance by a stay at home soccer mom married to a vending machine executive and thinking "Yes, this will help us plan our attack on American infrastructure if war were to break out", they'd be looking for people with actual real connections to important shit. >
  
  It’s always surprising how dumb smart people can be. The guy having a birthday party for his kid ends up being the top security guy who uses his kids birthday as a password. >
  
  Sure but the large majority of the population are not top security guys. >
  
  Yeah, but the more widespread the app is, the more likely you are to pick up something like that. >
  
  Maybe but that's only an argument for top security personnel to need to be more careful, the suburban soccer mom still doesn't really need to worry about their TikTok dance. >
  
  Also I I’d almost rather a foreign country has this info than a U.S. country who can use this data against you more easily. >
  
  Don’t people just use their phone’s 5G data? >
  
  You can. This is just for UT devices or devices on UT networks. >
  
  The latter includes most students using campus wifi in their dorms though >
  
  Banning something has never in the history of the world made people want it more >
  
  You can tell the age & whether or not they use tiktok by some of these comments. >
  
  I would love to block it on my home router but they made their links super long and super sparse to make it hard to block. >
  
  So patriots are fine the the NSA spying on them, and the entire planet. But worried China might see their selfies. >
  
  I'm pretty sure it's more about making sure foreign governments don't have spyware on their network >
  
  The GOP wants to sell that data to China, they don't want them to get it for free. >
  
  Honestly if we just banned all social media from phones and only allow them on desktop...may fix a lot of issues around society. After taking all of them off my phone and now forgetting my phone even exists half the time, I've realized it's the thumb throw "casino slot machine" feeling that is the addictive part...just one last hit. On desktop it doesn't do shit for me, I just check it once or twice a day and walk away, nothing addictive at all about it. >
  
  I recently started wearing normal "dumb" watches. It's surprising how much less you use the phone when you aren't using it to check the time. It keeps you from doing the whole "check time > see notifications > check notifications > spend a half hour or more on social media" thing that can happen multiple times a day. >
  
  notifications are a mental parasite for these applications.
  I am quite happy to have turned off nearly all of them.  The only things that get the permission of a notification are things that actively require an immediate response.