ToTok, Part 1: How to Convince Someone to Download Spyware

03/05/20 • 29 min

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ToTok, Part 1: How to Convince Someone to Download Spyware

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ToTok, Part 1: How to Convince Someone to Download Spyware

Only a few months after its release, ToTok – an ordinary messaging app, with no exceptional features – had over five million downloads, and held the number 4 position in Apple’s App Store global charts. So what was it that made ToTok so popular, so quickly? The answer: nothing good.