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Mandatory Chinese Olympics app has ‘devastating’ encryption flaw: analyst

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An app all attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics should use has encryption flaws that might permit private data to leak, a cyber safety watchdog stated Tuesday. The “simple but devastating flaw” within the encryption of the MY2022 app, which is used to watch Covid and is obligatory for athletes, journalists and different attendees of the video games in China’s capital, may permit well being data , voice message and different information to leak, warned Jeffrey Knockel, creator of the report for Citizen Lab. Citizen Lab notified the Chinese organizing committee for the Games of the problems in early December…

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