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Thomas Reed, staff product manager for Mac endpoint detection and response at security firm Huntress, and an expert in iOS security, said he found NowSecure\u2019s findings concerning.<\/p>\n

\u201cATS being disabled is generally a bad idea,\u201d he wrote in an online interview. \u201cThat essentially allows the app to communicate via insecure protocols, like HTTP. Apple does allow it, and I\u2019m sure other apps probably do it, but they shouldn\u2019t. There\u2019s no good reason for this in this day and age.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cEven if they were to secure the communications, I\u2019d still be extremely unwilling to send any remotely sensitive data that will end up on a server that the government of China could get access to.\u201d<\/p>\n

HD Moore, founder and CEO of runZero, said he was less concerned about ByteDance or other Chinese companies having access to data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unencrypted HTTP endpoints are inexcusable,\u201d he wrote. \u201cYou would expect the mobile app and their framework partners (ByteDance, Volcengine, etc) to hoover device data, just like anything else\u2014but the HTTP endpoints expose data to anyone in the network path, not just the vendor and their partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday<\/a>, US lawmakers began pushing to immediately ban DeepSeek from all government devices, citing national security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party may have built a backdoor into the service to access Americans’ sensitive private data. If passed, DeepSeek could be banned within 60 days.<\/p>\n

This story was updated to add further examples of security concerns regarding DeepSeek.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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