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Pick your poison. Although there are many examples of corruption and human rights violations in the US, compared to China US-citizens have significantly more le
by rudolph9 8y ago
Pick your poison. Although there are many examples of corruption and human rights violations in the US, compared to China US-citizens have significantly more leverage over their government and arguably more power to push back on this kind of surveillance.
A good example of this is Google encrypting network traffic between servers after the Snowden stuff was made public.
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-of-email-security.html?m=1 https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-of...
- magduf 8y agoYes, but practically speaking, China has almost no power at all to bother you if they successfully spy on you, aside of course from passing any secrets they learn from you to your Chinese competitors. The US, on the other hand, is where you're located (in this example) and can easily use any information gained against you in a large multitude of ways. Basically, everyone would probably be better off just assuming any network gear has backdoors open to the government of the country that it came from, then just adopting security policies to mitigate this, and buying network gear from countries that aren't their own.