Ottawa bans China’s WeChat, Russian-made app suite from government devices - National | Globalnews.ca
Ottawa bans China’s WeChat, Russian-made app suite from government devices - National | Globalnews.ca
The Liberal government is uninstalling and banning apps from a pair of developers after finding they pose an 'unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.'
I'm surprised government devices aren't already locked down to a right set of apps.
32Ehh. This is an issue of a whitelist vs blacklist approach, it's not that nuts that the government would want to allow newer tech to be used by work devices as a default.
The military is very different and much more strict about this, the average civil servant is less sensitive.
13Yeah, the fact that this wasn’t already happening points to incompetence. Or maybe the slow turning gears of governance.
I’ve been seeing similar headlines coming from the US over the past couple years, especially regarding Tik Tok and WeChat.
Still though, wild it has taken this long. Should have been a given that only domestically produced or heavily vetted apps make it onto government phones.
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Good for Ottawa.
6Ottawa = The Government, in any kind of article like this
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