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The recurring all-state-actors-are-the-same fallacy is getting tiresome. And it's not fear of Google accessing your account, which they already do. Is the Chin

• geofft 8y ago
  > And it's not fear of Google accessing your account, which they already do. Is the Chinese state actor doing so. Which they will. Is the claim here that Google is wilfully facilitating China accessing your account? If so, those fears are the same. (If the claim is that Google is unintentionally facilitating this, I think we need a bit more of a story about why Google - which wrote the U2F protocol with Yubico in the first place, and is generally seen to be competent at this - would make this mistake. "They want to make China happy" is the beginning of such a story but not nearly enough.)