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It's the opposite. As a US citizen you have to be afraid of DC while Chinese citizens need to make sure they don't get on Beijing's radar and so on for each nat
by cm3 10y ago
It's the opposite. As a US citizen you have to be afraid of DC while Chinese citizens need to make sure they don't get on Beijing's radar and so on for each nation. It's a matter of under which jurisdiction you are and therefore which governing body has the most freedom-limiting power over you.
These devices are developed in China and hence have Chinese IPs for some call-home feature. As much as I want to be skeptical, I wonder what the HN community would say if it'd be a US or French IP.
- StavrosK 10y agoConversely, if you get hacked by someone in the US, you have more recourse than if you get hacked by someone in China. Hence the word "Chinese" in the sentence.
- cm3 10y agoThat's true for a company with money for lawyers but not random private person. They will be mostly covered by their bank in case of fraud, but other than that, there's not much you can do. It's like burglary. I know first hand that you go report it to the police and a month later you get a letter that they stopped investigating the crime. I don't live in the US or China and I find it naive to single out Chinese ip address as bad addresses while not thinking twice about IPs in the US. There is no basis to trust a random ip address in the US more than one in Russia or China. And again, these devices are developed in China so it's natural for them to have a call-home ip that's in China. Instead of reading too much into it, let's first consider the most likely explanation.