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goob@diaspora.social
goobler

I can't believe that, in this digital high-definition age, there's an effing hair in the gate on the live feed from the Olympic curling. This is something not seen since the 1980s. Sort it out, totalitarian camera operators!

#sport #olympics #china #sport #film

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christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com
Christoph S

Cross-Country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics App - The Citizen Lab

While some work has ascribed intentionality to poor software security discovered in Chinese apps, we believe that such a widespread lack of security is less likely to be the result of a vast government conspiracy but rather the result of a simpler explanation such as differing priorities for software developers in China.

Yep. Hanlon’s Razor.

"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

#olympics #security

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/01/cross-country-exposure-analysis-my2022-olympics-app/

Cross-country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app - The Citizen Lab

MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Health customs forms which...

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christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com
Christoph S

ames Griffiths 🇭🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 auf Twitter: "I asked Citizen Lab team behind original analysis of My2022 app about below findings. Most important point from Jeff Knockel was "the app only requested microphone permissions when using the translation feature," and did not appear to record users at all times as some feared. https://t.co/9R7d3dR7ID" / Twitter

I thought so as well. Seems to be a normal legit feature. No one is constantly recording all speech data etc. a) this would drain the battery and b) would not scale.

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https://twitter.com/jgriffiths/status/1486897362174083073

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