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What's to stop Chinese agents from setting up shop in the US or Europe, and disseminating rogue apps from their "trusted" base?
by GnarfGnarf 6y ago
What's to stop Chinese agents from setting up shop in the US or Europe, and disseminating rogue apps from their "trusted" base?
- dangerface 6y agoWhat's to stop Chinese agents doing what the NSA does to spy on Americans? I think it would be better to just let china spy on the 12 year olds that use tictok and encourage Americans to use strong encryption / security by default. Following the Chinese lead of censorship just encourages them to hack American companies like the Americans do.
- miketery 6y ago> let china spy on the 12 year olds That's a ton of kompromat. Even if irrelevant on average and on the whole, it'll impact enough individuals. Why give that kind of leverage away for free? Though agreed regardless, we need to move towards E2E encryption, local storage, and local key management (i.e. no password resets... or complex recovery schemes).
- Nasrudith 6y agoThere is an easy solution to kompromat - stop being judgemental shitheads for 12 year olds or caring what morons think. Seriously - kompromat is defined in terms of tbe cultural norms and not intrinsic. The LGBT community learned this well before the fucking CIA by being out and proud to tell the mafia blackmailers to go fuck themselves.
- Qwertious 6y agoSetting up shop in the US or Europe implies having agents in US or Europe, and those people could be spied on by the US/Europe, or coerced or just shut down. It's a more all-in strategy.