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On one hand, if you live in the USA maybe it's better that a Chinese company spies on you, because they're far away and the government/other gangsters are less
by xkcd-sucks 9y ago
On one hand, if you live in the USA maybe it's better that a Chinese company spies on you, because they're far away and the government/other gangsters are less likely to care about you than about local people involved in local politics etc.
On the other hand, there's no guarantee your data isn't also made available to domestic parties, either as it's intercepted in transit or explicitly shared in bulk in exchange for e.g. concessions on a trade treaty
- reaperducer 9y ago> On one hand, if you live in the USA maybe it's better that a Chinese company spies on you It depends on who the "you" is. If it's a couple of internet nobodies like you and me that China is spying on, then it's no big whoop. But if the "you" in question is someone who works at the Pentagon, or at a defense contractor, or a diplomat, or government official, then there's a problem.
- LukaAl 9y agoEven if you are a nobody, are you sure? Maybe you know someone that is not a nobody (works at the Pentagon, or at a defense contractor, or a diplomat, or government official ...). Or you know someone that has access to a non-nobody. And even that. Probably having access to an allegedly nobody with no connection could be interesting. Which access level has, I don't know, the DevOps of Credit Karma? Or a Data Scientist for Acxiom, or... They are totally mister nobody, but they have access, directly or indirectly to important peoples. So, the risk is actually higher than expected...