Friday Brief for 28 January 2022

China's Olympics app is pure spyware; Preparing for cyber spillover; & Simulating tomorrow's reality

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Boot Sequence — The initial series of processes a computer runs when starting up.

China’s Olympics App is Pure Spyware

What’s New: Cybersecurity researchers say the My2022 mobile app — the official app of the Beijing Winter Olympics — has serious security vulnerabilities and that “all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers.”

Why This Matters: The Chinese government is mandating all Olympic athletes, coaches, and attendees use the My2022 app and, as of Thursday morning, the app is still available in the Apple and Android U.S. app stores where Americans can download it too.

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  1. Not Jonathan Scott

    Jonathan Scott is actually a fraud and well basically an idiot. He has blocked hundreds of people infosec on Twitter, anyone that points out his "facts" are not real and there are issues in his "research". They are even web pages about it. https://luketucker.com/jonathan-scotts-end-game/. He verbally attacks people, offers bounties to help him dox users, and even sued his own family, which by they way no longer talk to him because of his actions. Scott isn't even his real name, it's Jonathan Lee Villarreal which he changed after was arrested for on multiple occasions exposing himself to young girls. It's not a good look promoting a guy like that.

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    Bradley Alpert

    If the fundamental limitation to the simulation realism of SSE is the lack of real-world data used as input, what does this say about a possible analogous system in China, where vacuuming of data from all possible sources, domestic and foreign, has been the practice now for years?

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