nicuramar t1_j0dnct8 wrote
Reply to comment by AadamAtomic in Senate votes to ban TikTok on US government-owned devices | Bill comes after several states barred employees from downloading the app on state-owned gadgets over data concerns by AsslessBaboon
> You can't have tiktok on your personal phone, and walk around inside the US pentagon every day Mapping it out with GPS thats sent to China.
It puzzles me a bit when people think that the TikTok app (and other apps) would be able to do anything remotely like this :p. It certainly can't, especially not when not active.
> It could give away troops positions or base locations.
So, that's more likely (since people might use the app now and then), but it seems like bases would be much easier to detect with regular satellite intel.
That said, I agree that apps in general should be restricted in such situations.
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