Posted on 01/19/2022 8:09:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A smartphone app that’s expected to be widely used by athletes and others attending next month’s Winter Games in Beijing has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception, according to a report published Tuesday.
Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group, said in its report the MY2022 app has seriously flawed encryption that would make users’ sensitive data — and any other data communicated through it — vulnerable to being hacked. Other important user data on the app wasn’t encrypted at all, the report found.
That means the data could be read by Chinese internet service providers or telecommunications companies through Wi-Fi hotspots at hotels, airports and Olympic venues.
The Citizen Lab report said the app was mandatory for attendees of the games, and the International Olympic Committee’s official guidance instructs attendees to download the app before they come to China. But the IOC issued a statement Tuesday saying the smartphone app was not compulsory.
China is requiring all international Olympic attendees — including coaches and journalists — to log into a health monitoring system at least 14 days before their departure. They can use the app to do so, or can log in through a web browser on a PC. The app allows users to submit required health information on a daily basis and is part of China’s aggressive effort to manage the coronavirus pandemic while hosting the games, which begin Feb. 4. The multipurpose app also includes chat features, file transfers, weather updates, tourism recommendations and GPS navigation.
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That means the data could be read by Chinese internet service providers or telecommunications companies through Wi-Fi hotspots at hotels, airports and Olympic venues.
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A feature, not a bug.
Virtually everything made in communist China has “security flaws,” from melamine in dog kibble to propylene glycol in baby formula. It goes without saying that any electronic device or chip or app will incorporate security flaws.
CHINESE
Hordes of incomprehensible rat-eaters with a peculiar political philosophy and a dangerous penchant for narcotic drugs. No one can possibly know what dark and grotesque things pass through the minds of this hydraheaded racial anomaly which is, after all, more like a monstrous colony of flesh-crazed carpenter ants than a nation of rational men. Only a fool would deal with two-legged insects ..such as these. Our only hope is that the farsighted leaders of our own land Will join with those of at least nominally Caucasian Soviet Russia and that together they will treat us to the welcome spectacle of a thermonuclear obliteration of this yellow menace.
Chi-coms will be recording everything.
Of course it does. What do you expect - made in China.
“All your Gold Medals are belong to us!”
Shocked that communists would do this. Who do they think the are, the fedgov?
Sounds like old National Lampoon. Is it?
Yea, PJ O’Rourke, “Foreigners of the World”. He hits all foreigners, some hilarious stuff. The woke crowd absolutely hates it and 40 years later he is still apologizing to them over it.
Exactly.
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