Is The TikTok Truthfully a Security Threat to U. S. National Security?
Many people are excited about the TikTok technologies takeover by U.S. companies. Will that resolve the national security interest? Anyone with technical knowledge of how these IT systems are developed and IT security infrastructures knows that it is all semantics and empty talk of how to remake something that was flawed in its conception. If the issue is truthfully to protect our national security, indebt analysis will show that every fruit of a poisoned tree is poisoned and kills whoever ate of it. In computer programing, we say garbage in = garbage out.
If the U.S. companies are buying over TikTok to kill the technology and no one will use it, then it is safe. If it is to buy it and use the popular name to rebrand something else or another wholly new technology, it will work, so long everything of the old is destroyed, and whole new system is built on that name brand. Such take over, break down, and repackage new of new systems, will take some amount of time though: research and work to write new codes and algorithm with the required artificial intelligence and infrastructural network, takes time and resources. I doubt that anyone will do such, when it will cost less to have new system made and put the name TikTok on another device and systems.
If it is good to buy TikTok and rework it, it must not be that bad. If U.S. company can rework the old system, then it had no serious national security issue in the first place, but simply a reciprocal U. S. government intervention against a Chinese government that always took American companies and their technologies. How much a security threat is TikPok and what is the price tag on its security flaws?
If it is as huge as reported, how can anyone fix a software and/or hardware they did not build, do not know where the backdoors are, and all the bugs hidden in it, and can they rework it? IT core systems flaws are not simply resolved by buying the company and running it, as normal purchases that occur regularly. Even at that, it often fails. Is that not why Sprint became huge liability for the company that took it over? Did Nextel survive and what was the cost to the company that purchased it? How about Blackberry? One of the most secured cell phone America produced is still struggling to find its feet. If you can trust the Chinese to tell you everything they have built into TikTok, why not ask them instead of tearing it down? We know better not to trust an untrustworthy foe.
IT system is not a piece of metal or wood that you can analyze the chemical composition in a lab and come up with exact component or impurities. Building any IT system starts with carefully planned and thoughtful design process, development, core, platform, structure, clientele, and all other infrastructure and it has to be very futuristic, or else it will flop. It is easy to say that one can use computer or hire specialist to go through the codes line by line, byte by byte, and bit by bit to find any security flaw. Such process will cost more to go through than building brand new system and it makes no business or technology sense.
So, President Trump, beware of what they are presenting to you. Remember these investors are the same globalist, protecting their friends and business interest first before our national security or Americans’ lives, rights, and properties, and trust not any promise or guarantees. Verify, authenticate, validate, test, retest, monitor, and protect.
Ebelechukwu Elochukwu
CEO/Chief Technology Officer
