People should be leery of every Chinese app they install.
That picture frame you bought for Xmas. That RGB light strip you got for the backyard that is app controlled. That impossibly cheap set of speakers, that once again, require a shady app to work right. I don’t care how locked down we think our phones are, I have no doubt that these Chinese apps are harvesting our data. Temu is probably no different. Red China is dumping a bunch of cheap crap into our mailboxes and those low prices are, in part, being made up by stealing our data.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Read with very high levels of suspicion: there’s a huge number of errors in this article.
The issues discussed seem surface-level troublesome to me. But they’re extremely weasel-words and/or exaggerated. I don’t think these guys have found a smoking gun, there’s a lot of problems with this code but…
The permission list doesn’t seem to match reality. The argument seems to be “TEMU code references these permissions, so they must try to get the permissions somehow”. These red-flag permissions aren’t on the Google Play store manifest however.
Very basic errors involving MAC Addresses and other fundamental computer concepts.
Etc. etc. The core problems here might be true, but I’ll need a more legitimate tech-site to go over the data and actually tell me what the problem is, because a lot of this “article” is just hyperbolic fluff.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I want to know what the F is going on… because this is the second medium I have seen this on. There are a handful of Tiktok videos warning people of getting their credit card or banking info stolen after using Temu. Is this some coordinated stock shakedown, or is it really that bad? It’s interesting either way.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting your warnings about Chinese spyware from TikTok is like watching for icebergs ahead of the Titanic after it’s already cracked in half and on the way to the bottom.