TikTok Moves US User Data To Oracle Servers (reuters.com) 28
TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle, in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters. From a report: The move comes nearly two years after a U.S. national security panel ordered ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China's government.
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ordered ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China's government.
TikTok is stupid useless shit, but what important information is the Chinese government going to get from TikTok? [...]
Hearts and minds
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Hearts and minds
I doubt most TikTok users are even aware that it's a Chinese site. Or could even locate China on a map.
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It's that old, fancy and fragile dinnerware that your grandmother has.
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Hearts and minds
I doubt most TikTok users are even aware that it's a Chinese site. Or could even locate China on a map.
TikTok has an unexpected side effect going on.
It has become a mecca for ladies, some with significant mental issues, to post misandric videos. Screaming, yelling about how much they hate men, complaining that no male wants to wife them, yelling about no how they don't need a man, but they want one to do the work around the house. In a stark change, complaining that men avoid them and none will approach them. Plus a weird phenomenon of the afflicted ladies punching their phones as well. It has become a wh
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Yup... same with Grindr. (Except Grindr actually serves a useful purpose.). When that got acquired by a Chinese company, I remember there were hysterics over "national security risks." I mean... the level of delusion on the part of the right is just astounding sometimes... as if who I hook up with has anything to do with military or government secrets or anything else that anyone in China would actually care about.
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Maybe not you but who leaked the info on the founders of the Lincoln Project?
Who, not what, in politics.
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as if who I hook up with has anything to do with military or government secrets or anything else that anyone in China would actually care about.
That depends on who's hooking up. Being able to embarrass/blackmail high-level officials is definitely weaponizable.
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as if who I hook up with has anything to do with military or government secrets or anything else that anyone in China would actually care about.
Errrr ... unless you hook up with someone who has possession of government and military secrets and is closeted, and therefore is possibly vulnerable to blackmail. Just like how you won't get a security clearance if the government finds out you have a lot of gambling debts.
Hmmm... (Score:2)
"TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle."
That just means that the CPC has hacked into those servers and now they don't care where the data resides because they can get to it without any problems.
Irrelevant (Score:4, Informative)
It's irrelevant. All that matters is who has access to the data. If TikTok has access, CCP has access. That's all you need to know. This would only change if Oracle decided to cut them off. However, it does now therefore offer NSA access.
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Yeah, and if Oracle has the data, then Uncle Larry will sell it to the highest bidder...might even sell it back to the Chinese. I don't trust him.
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Because it's got an Oracle label on it, and I have absolutely no trust that the terms that I agree to now will look anywhere near the same at the next renewal.
Oracle seems like they just fuck over customers for fun and profit.
Phase II (Score:2)
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The ironic thing is that when you get to the big leagues (petabytes+), Oracle and DB/2 are pretty much your only choices. Solaris on SPARC is nice, although no clue if it has kept pace with x86. Weblogic tends to leave a lot of cruft behind, and your best bet is to run it in a container (Docker is part of base Solaris) that you can dump and reload it, especially if you have a lot of clustered "cattle" apps.
Nothing there is really bad, and I've heard about setups exactly just like this on huge scales... an
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By replying I give up the mod points I want to share with you for Having a Clue.
You're absolutely right. It's all well and cool to deploy your microservice on the flavor-of-the-month but this stuff works -- and works well -- for heavy lifting.
The SPARC M8 is still a 32-core/256-thread/5GHz beast of a CPU. 4 of those in a box, 4TB RAM and a butt ton of I/O slots makes for a damn fine beast of a database monster. And it's almost 5 years old already.
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R.I.P. TikTok. 2017-2022.
You could have chosen any number of different open-source RDBMS systems, or any of 100 other ways to do the job using other database tools.
You didn't. You went with perhaps the one entity in the universe that knows how to shake people down, customers or no, better than any other. Perhaps, eventually, including your own customers and products.
The universe might reward stupidity in the very short term, but, in the longer term, it never does.
Rust in pieces.
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R.I.P. TikTok. 2017-2022.
You could have chosen any number of different open-source RDBMS systems, or any of 100 other ways to do the job using other database tools.
You didn't. You went with perhaps the one entity in the universe that knows how to shake people down, customers or no, better than any other.
Isn't TikTok all about shaking people down?
Well you see, your honor.... (Score:2)
Now that the data lives on Oracle servers instead of TikTok owned servers, the Chinese engineers who write and maintain the schema and all processing have no access to the data...
Thanks,
Uncle Larry!