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I once bought a Chinese brand tablet and it turned out to have a malicious root installed. Why would I even think of buying a Huawei phone when there are rumor

I once bought a Chinese brand tablet and it turned out to have a malicious root installed. Why would I even think of buying a Huawei phone when there are rumors that they have spyware installed?

levosmetalo 9y ago
Because if you live in the your government, companies and individuals in your country will have much harder time getting your data from the Chinese, than from the US or other western companies you can "trust". /s
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Because you're in the 99% of the population who don't care? GCHQ are already spying on me, along with every bank, social media company, large business, ... China can know about my inane existence too. Chinese companies probably made all the network infrastructure already. My ISP uses Chinese made routers.
- Fjolsvith 9y ago
  You may not care who knows, but I bet you would not put up with the slowness of the device because of the spyware feeding everything to the other side of the planet. And when China starts doing something with your credit card info, I bet you drop your Chinese devices.
bclemens 9y ago
> buys a chinesium tablet with a rootkit > assumes all chinese devices are compromised China's a big country with a lot of companies, I wouldn't lump them all together.
- Sangermaine 9y ago
  >China's a big country with a lot of companies owned and controlled directly or indirectly by their government, an authoritarian dictatorship. It’s disingenuous to pretend Chiba is just another market of competing private companies.
  - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    While Huawei is probably indirectly controlled and owned by the PLA, many Chinese companies are not owned by the state, like Tencent.
    - Lionsion 9y ago
      You don't need to be owned by the state to follow commands from it.
      - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
        Yes, but that isn’t unique to China or even authoritarian economies. It’s definitely a shade of grey thing.
jason46 9y ago
What tablet is not made in China? My young daughter has a T3 Media pad and it has been the best tablet in that price range she has had and hasn't been destroyed so far.
- Fjolsvith 9y ago
  Samsung tablets.

I once bought a Chinese brand tablet and it turned out to have a malicious root installed. Why would I even think of buying a Huawei phone when there are rumors that they have spyware installed?

levosmetalo 9y ago

Because if you live in the your government, companies and individuals in your country will have much harder time getting your data from the Chinese, than from the US or other western companies you can "trust". /s

pbhjpbhj 9y ago

Because you're in the 99% of the population who don't care? GCHQ are already spying on me, along with every bank, social media company, large business, ... China can know about my inane existence too. Chinese companies probably made all the network infrastructure already. My ISP uses Chinese made routers.

Fjolsvith 9y ago
You may not care who knows, but I bet you would not put up with the slowness of the device because of the spyware feeding everything to the other side of the planet. And when China starts doing something with your credit card info, I bet you drop your Chinese devices.

bclemens 9y ago

> buys a chinesium tablet with a rootkit > assumes all chinese devices are compromised China's a big country with a lot of companies, I wouldn't lump them all together.

Sangermaine 9y ago
>China's a big country with a lot of companies owned and controlled directly or indirectly by their government, an authoritarian dictatorship. It’s disingenuous to pretend Chiba is just another market of competing private companies.
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  While Huawei is probably indirectly controlled and owned by the PLA, many Chinese companies are not owned by the state, like Tencent.
  - Lionsion 9y ago
    You don't need to be owned by the state to follow commands from it.
    - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
      Yes, but that isn’t unique to China or even authoritarian economies. It’s definitely a shade of grey thing.

jason46 9y ago

What tablet is not made in China? My young daughter has a T3 Media pad and it has been the best tablet in that price range she has had and hasn't been destroyed so far.

Fjolsvith 9y ago
Samsung tablets.