The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees.
The nation's ministère de la transformation et de la fonction publiques last Friday issued a statement PDF announcing the policy, which minister of transformation and public service Stanislas Guerini justified on grounds that no recreational apps have sufficiently robust security for them to be deployed on government-owned devices.
Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the "RSOCKS" botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious…