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My Thoughts About the United States Banning TikTok

2023-03-10 Security Josh Rickard

These are my personal thoughts about the United States banning TikTok.

As you may have already heard, some congressional leaders have proposed the ban of a Chinese based social media application called TikTok.

There is fear, with some truth mixed in, that TikTok is a danger to United States national defense. There are many reasons congressional, military, and other policy leaders fear TikTok, but the common theme seems to be related to data collection on American citizens and the potential of manipulating viewpoints in favor of the Chinese government.

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Swimlane Runner Up in Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon

2019-04-02 Swimlane Josh Rickard

Within a few weeks of starting at Swimlane, our CEO Cody Cornell mentioned the Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon — put on by the Microsoft Graph Security team and DevPost. After assembling a team and a lot of hard work, we were notified yesterday that our submission earned runner up!

We were extremely excited to participate in this unique event as we were about to begin our development of our Microsoft Graph Security API bundle, and this would be the perfect opportunity for us to showcase the power of Swimlane.

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