A Chinese-built mobile app that is mandatory for all participants in the Winter Olympics contains security flaws that could make it easy for a hacker to steal sensitive personal information
of the games, citing widespread human-rights abuses, including a campaign of forcible assimilation carried out again Turkic Muslim minority groups in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang., saying they amount to interference in China’s internal affairs. China’s Foreign Ministry has protested what it says are attempts to politicize the Olympic Games.A curated weekly tour of WSJ's unique take on the sports world including news and features.
Along with Covid-19, cybersecurity has ranked at the top of the list of concerns among countries participating in the Games. American athletes have been advised by the U.S. Olympic Committee to leave personal cellphones at home andinstead to prevent any technological surveillance. Officials from Canada, the Netherlands and Great Britain have offered similar guidance to their own athletes.
The researchers found that the app’s messaging function transmitted some key data without any encryption or security at all. Metadata including the names of message senders and receivers and their user account identifiers can be read by any passive eavesdropper operating a Wi-Fi hot spot, or an internet service provider or telecom company, they said.China is enforcing a strict set of Covid-19 rules at the Winter Olympics to stop the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
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