KONTAN.CO.ID – NEW YORK. Do you like TikTok? It’s better to read this news. The first public beta of the iPhone operating system, iOS 14 revealed, TikTok can access clipboard. It is dangerous if you happen to copy important information, such as a bank account number or social security number. Clipboard is somewhere in memory to temporarily store results copy. So each of us mencopy image or text then immediately the image or text will be stored inside clipboard
TikTok is a very popular short video application. Even the most popular applications on the App Store and Play Store. However, Peterson Institute for International Economics calls it a major problem in terms of security.
In February, a number of developers discovered a system related problem copy paste on iOS which makes sensitive information unprotected. One of the developers who discovered this problem, Tommy Mysk, told Digital Trends, at the WWDC 2020 developer conference, the problem was fixed thanks to a feature in iOS 14 that displays a banner warning to iPhone users while the application is reading clipboard they.
Last March cyber security researchers discussed privacy concerns for about 48 iOS applications including TikTok. At that time TikTok agreed to improve the system. But from various sources, the application from China along with 53 other applications were found to still access sensitive data for iPhone users. Quoting Ars Technica last week, data that can be read by TikTok and 53 other applications include password, crypto currency wallet addresses, account links, to private messages inside clipboard.
Then what is TikTok’s explanation?
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