Michael Acton Of the five apps that are linked to Qihoo, collectively they've been downloaded millions of times. And these apps have high ratings. They seem, on the face of things, to be completely legitimate when you look at them, when you access the store. Another thing that Tech Transparency Project dug up was that 20 out of the 100 most popular VPN apps on Apple's App Store surreptitiously have Chinese owners, that is to say there's been some kind of attempt to disguise that link. Now the fact that they're owned in China is not necessarily a huge concern in and of itself. And that's partly why the focus of our reporting was on this sanctioned company.