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If they are preventing you from loading your own software, in my mind that lends credence to the idea that ZTE has some sort of spying capability (beyond the us

If they are preventing you from loading your own software, in my mind that lends credence to the idea that ZTE has some sort of spying capability (beyond the usual smartphone spying capabilities) that they really don't want to lose.

hellbanner 11y ago
Perhaps that's why they're so cheap - their cost is subsidised by the listeners?
- nothis 11y ago
  You know, 3 years ago I would have called that paranoid. Now? Not so sure.
- samstave 11y ago
  Police state 3.0 But holy crap that's a good theory. I'd be really interested in the actual demographics of who is buying which phones.
ris 11y ago
Implying that the Chinese are any more likely to be listening to the world's communications through their phones than the Americans are likely to be through their phones is farcical.
- diyorgasms 11y ago
  I'm not saying it can't be both. But American companies already own the mobile operating system space. If we're owned by the US, it's likely there. And those companies are most likely but playing ball with the Chinese as nicely as they ate with the Americans. And that's why backdoors built into Chinese hardware for Chinese spies seems at least plausible to me.