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What about blackmail? They can use your surfing data (porn, social media) to blackmail you. If you do your banking or shopping on your phone, they will have acc
by y-c-o-m-b 9y ago
What about blackmail? They can use your surfing data (porn, social media) to blackmail you. If you do your banking or shopping on your phone, they will have access to your credit card data, social security #, etc. that can be sold or used for cyber warfare.
You're right, no upsides, but there are huge risks with having the Chinese steal your information.
- eesmith 9y agoAhh, you are right. I didn't think about that possibility because I don't have a smartphone.
- eesmith 9y agoAnd because I read "listening in" literally, as intercepting audio, rather than metaphorically as being able to intercept all traffic. Also, the US has blackmailed people, like the FBI attempt to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. We know the US gathers the porn habits of people who it considers might be a threat, including of a US person (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n... ). So really it's a matter of balancing the odds. The odds are low that either government will care about me. It feels more likely that my life will be upended by a mistake, like what happened with Brandon Mayfield, and a mistake by the US government is far more likely to affect me than a mistake by the Chinese government.