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I try to limit the times I am painting with such a wide brush as to categorize the output of an entire county but in the case of technology coming out of China,

I try to limit the times I am painting with such a wide brush as to categorize the output of an entire county but in the case of technology coming out of China, isn't it almost guaranteed to be "insecure"? I am saying insecure in the sense that there is no doubt that the Chinese government has access to whatever data in TikTok they want. I am admittedly out of my depth on detailed discussions about security but I believe this is basically the situation in China. Maybe you could argue that it is effectively the same in the United States but I'm not sure.

Digit-Al 8y ago
It depends on your threat model. There are certain types of information that would be of interest to the Chinese government, and you would, indeed, be unwise to use any services that are under the purview of the Chinese government to store or transmit such information. Whether such services would be perverted by the Chinese government is a whole other discussion of course. However, I don't think anyone but the most rabid sinophobe would accuse the Chinese government of wanting to abduct our children.