Ahmed Attaf
Ahmed Attaf (Arabic: أحمد عطاف; born July 10, 1953) is an Algerian diplomat and politician.
Biography
He was born in Ain Defla, Algeria.
He is a member of the National Rally for Democracy.
He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Algiers in 1972 and has served as Algerian Ambassador to India, to Yugoslavia and to the United Kingdom.
He was Minister-Delegate to the Foreign Minister in charge of Maghreb and African Affairs and then served as Foreign Minister[1] from January 1996 until 1999.
gollark: > > There's also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary> so here's the thing, TikTok as an app, continuously downloads files i.e video files, it's kinda the whole point. there's nothing "odd" about being able to download and extract zip files, the odd thing is delivering executables via zip. however, this is a non-issue and honestly a red herring, why?This is irrelevant. Yes, downloading video files is normal, downloading extra code which might be doing whatever (subject to sandboxing, at least) is not.
gollark: It could record locally and upload later, though.
gollark: This person apparently reverse-engineered it statically, not at runtime, but it *can* probably detect if you're trying to reverse-engineer it a bit while running.
gollark: > > App behavior changes slightly if they know you're trying to figure out what they're doing> this sentence makes no sense to me, "if they know"? he's dissecting the code as per his own statement, thus looking at rows of text in various format. the app isn't running - so how can it change? does the app have self-awareness? this sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi movie from the 90's.It's totally possible for applications to detect and resist being debugged a bit.
gollark: > this is standard programming dogma, detailed logging takes a lot of space and typically you enable logging on the fly on clients to catch errors. this is literally cookie cutter "how to build apps 101", and not scary. or, phrased differently, is it scary if all of that logging was always on? obviously not as it's agreed upon and detailed in TikTok's privacy policy (really), so why is it scary that there's an on and off switch?This is them saying that remotely configurable logging is fine and normal; I don't think them being able to arbitrarily gather more data is good.
References
- Gomez, Ricardo (2003). Negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean partnership: strategic action in EU foreign policy?. Ashgate Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-7546-1922-2.
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