TikTok Requests GitHub to Remove 'Reverse Engineered Android App Source Code'
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Process DMCA request · github / dmca @ badc3e2 · GitHub
https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/badc3e20381b7bcf3743726a2d4ab48a8890025f
TikTok Using DMCA to Take Down Reverse-Engineered Source Code * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-using-dmca-to-take-down-reverse-engineered-source-code-210117/
TikTok is a social network that is gaining popularity mainly among young people, and according to a report released by Wallaloo Media, which supports corporate advertising strategies in January 2021, it has been downloaded more than 2.6 billion times in 150 countries around the world and is an active user per month. The number is said to exceed 1 billion. In addition, users open TikTok about 8 times a day on average, and spend 52 minutes on TikTok.
The report states that 'if your brand targets include people between the ages of 13 and 40, you should use TikTok now', but it also raises privacy concerns about TikTok. In 2019 and 'it has been found that TikTok was analyzed the TikTok has committed a multiple of legal violations' were reported in addition, in 2020 the contents of which are entered by the user in the 'TikTok of other apps 'Stealing' was regarded as a problem.
TikTok is stealing what the user is typing-GIGAZINE
Meanwhile, a developer called ' augustgl ' reverse engineered APK , which is the file format of TikTok's Android-only software package, and released 'TikTok source code' on GitHub.
In the GitHub repository where augustgl published the source code for TikTok, 'This project is a bit different from my other projects. TikTok is a data collection engine disguised as a social media platform. It's just spyware and an Android app. I thought about reverse engineering. '
TikTok noticed that the reverse-engineered source code was released on GitHub, and applied for deletion to GitHub based on the DMCA. A document requesting deletion of the repository submitted by TikTok to GitHub states, 'I am a legal adviser to TikTok, the copyright owner of the subject matter of this notice, and have the authority to act on behalf of the owner.' 'The original work is the source code for TikTok's Android app. GitHub user augustgl seems to claim that he has reverse engineered the app.'
At the request of TikTok, the Augustgl repository and forked forks were deleted in November 2020, and 5 forks were deleted in January 2021.
'The big problem is that the public code is surprising or insightful about the privacy and security claims recently reported about TikTok,' said TorrentFreak, a tech media outlet who reported the situation. Whether it was brought or not. ' TorrentFreak has contacted Augustgl, but he said he didn't get a response at the time of writing the article. In addition, in the comment sent to TorrentFreak, 'I should have posted the source code to a place other than GitHub' '(I guess from other repositories posted by augustgl) It was not reverse engineering, it was just decompiled . It seems like '.
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