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weather reports and venue check in with a word with professor ron dba, who's director of the university of toronto citizen lab, which investigated this app. but welcome to d. w. professor at talk briefly through your findings. well, the findings are pretty straightforward, actually, although very troubling. and i would say also not very surprising given the context of software development in china. we registered and downloaded the application, my $22.00, which as you say is mandatory for all athletes and journalists and visitors to the olympic games to install on their phones. and we discovered some disturbing features. one is that it has terrible security, bad encryption protocols were used in this software, which would allow anyone along the network path that the data flows a why fi network, for example, to intercept communications important parts of the communications and also even spoof websites. in other words, send information back to a user pretending to be something that they're not in a fraudulent manner. we also discovered that it has a feature to report what's called politically sensitive conte