TikTok, security, and the hammer of Congress

According to a saying, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This bit of folk wisdom has had many variants over the years, going back at least to an English magazine in 1868 that described the consequence of giving a boy a hammer and chisel, but the concept has remained constant: Provide unskilled people a single tool, and they will employ it with enthusiastic abandon to solve every problem…