Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned(boredpanda.com)

55 points by SimplyUseless 5 years ago | 5 comments

In this case, BO has done nothing more than regurgitate yet another reddit post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...

dang 5 years ago | |

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129

genidoi 5 years ago |

Realistically, even if I tried to explain it in layman terms, none of those points would convince my girlfriend to stop using TikTok.

rvz 5 years ago |

TikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry. However, the protection mechanisms in their API is interesting if true.

Perhaps they got Arxan Technologies to do the heavy-lifting for them to audit and obfuscate their private API just like how Snapchat and Niantic (Pokemon Go) did.

This ultimately sounds like typical white-box cryptography again.

danellis 5 years ago | |

> TikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry.

Which claim are you disputing? That TikTok gathers all the data, or that the other apps mentioned (Facebook, Twitter etc) don't gather as much?