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> As an American, I'd rather be spied on by the Chinese than by my own government. Considering the low-quality of security in Chinese products, you are much mo
by mtgx 8y ago
> As an American, I'd rather be spied on by the Chinese than by my own government.
Considering the low-quality of security in Chinese products, you are much more susceptible to be spied upon by the Chinese...and the American spy agencies, and Russia spy agencies, and criminal groups, and so on.
- DyslexicAtheist 8y ago> ... you are much more susceptible to be spied upon ... or indeed by your own employer: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-moderators-complain-big-brother-rules-accenture-austin-2019-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-moderators-complain... if we would really be worried about security (and not politics / foreign policy war mongering) we'd be speaking about threat models.. And here the China Supply Chain Threat doesn't hold up. Backdoor hardware implants are only tangentially interesting since the vulnerabilities that stem from shoddy engineering (hello crappy ASN.1 parsers and a thousand other flaws: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1093301841205456896.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1093301841205456896.html) are much cheaper to harness than some hypothetical purpose-made backdoor that costs millions to implement and keep covered-up. (Occam's razor)