Mandatory Chinese Olympics app has encryption flaws
Cyber security watchdog report warns that the app, used to track Covid-19, could let health and other data and voice messages to leak
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AN APP all attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics must use has encryption flaws that could allow personal information to leak, a cyber security watchdog has warned.
The "simple but devastating flaw" in the encryption of the MY2022 app, which is used to monitor Covid and is mandatory for athletes, journalists and other attendees of the games in China's capital, could allow health information, voice messages and other data to leak, cautioned Jeffrey Knockel, author of the report for Citizen Lab.
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