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TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban (www.cnn.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

America already controls the TikTok servers. It all needs to be hosted on Oracle, and Oracle can see the source code.

The ban makes no sense seeing the previous requirements.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Oracle can see the source code

What? Surely that's not true

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oracle can see the source code or the binary?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think this person knows what they're talking about, they must either think ByteDance is hosting the source code on Oracle's servers or they somehow think that binaries are the same as source code 🤷

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

I think this person very well knows what they are talking about

TikTok got forced to host all on Oracle servers and store all information there. And have mandatory code inspections.

This was after Trump tried to ban it citing "security concerns".

The funniest part is that back then Microsoft was supposedly trying to buy TikTok and Trump made sure that wouldn't happen

Microsoft was reported to be in talks of acquiring TikTok. Later that day, President Trump announced plans to ban TikTok in the United States, and signaled opposition to any sale to a U.S.-based company. Trump's ban threat and his indication he would oppose any sale to an American buyer was condemned by TikTok users, many of whom argued that national security concerns were being used as a cover by the administration to justify a ban as retaliation for pranks aimed at Trump by TikTok users (particularly, a ticket-purchasing effort to inflate projected and depress actual attendance of his June 20 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma) and other content satirizing Trump or critical of him and his actions, especially in relation to his response to the George Floyd protests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where did you get the idea that Oracle can see their source code? That only applies if they host their source repository on Oracle, if they host the servers there chances are it's binaries that are hosted on the server not the source code.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

May 2023 - TikTok Will ‘Soon’ Grant Oracle Full Access to Code, Algorithm

(Bloomberg) -- TikTok will “soon” grant Oracle Corp. full access to its source code, algorithm and content-moderation material as part of efforts to alleviate national security concerns about the app.

Oracle will also begin monitoring the controlled gateways where data comes in and out of the secure environment it set up on servers to host data from TikTok’s US users, according to a statement from the social media company Monday.