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China Used 'Mass Surveillance' on Thousands of Americans' Phones, Report Claims
- Normille 6y agoPulls up a comfy chair and large bucket of popcorn, in anticipation of Western governments spluttering with outrage at this. While, at the same time, being opposed to their citizens having access to encrypted communications.
- raxxorrax 6y agoBought a notebook from a popular non-Chinese manufacturer that is currently delayed in Shanghai for some days now. If the device finally arrives it will be brought up in a very tight containment network and every tcp packet it sends will be scrutinized excessively, even if that particular device wouldn't be used for a lot of things. That said, western governments do the same. It would have been smarter not to do it in every conceivable way. For user security, for diplomatic standing, for certifying the intelligence community isn't actively undermining the values it is supposed to defend. So what result did they get in return for all that? A huge waste of taxpayer money, lies about domestic policies and agency abuse, compromised network security and totalitarian whistleblower prosecution. No, western governments cannot call China out on their practices because they would do the exact same things. Weak sauce.