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You forgot the part where people are voluntarily buying those, because they cost less. Of course those made in California would be totally safe, but damn shame

by tdkl 10y ago

You forgot the part where people are voluntarily buying those, because they cost less. Of course those made in California would be totally safe, but damn shame about that globalism.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
That's the point, though - a government could indirectly subsidize a product to increase its adoption, exploiting the fact that "people are voluntarily buying those, because they cost less".
- tdkl 10y ago
  They "could" also do the same for the good old capitalistic result of more devices sold, but without any backdoors.
the_trapper 10y ago
> Of course those made in California would be totally safe Maybe I'm too cynical, but from what I know about the NSA and other three letter US Government agencies, I beg to differ. Additionally, good luck finding any type of electronic device that is entirely made in the USA. I honestly can't think of anything with a printed circuit board that is assembled in the USA from 100% American-made parts. Then of course there's always the whole engineers taking shortcuts to meet unrealistic deadlines thing. Somehow network security tends to be very low on the list of priorities when you have to make a profit.
- tdkl 10y ago
  I probably forgot to add "/s" at the end of that sentence.
- dimino 10y ago
  This has nothing to do with governments, it's freaking hard to build secure software. There'd be bugs in American software just like there are bugs in the foreign software.