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I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen. I would be very careful.

by meibo 6y ago

crentist_the_d 6y ago
The article says "no, QQ is not stealing your history, you just need to disable the rule and it stops". I guess that's how they cover for themselves.
- oefrha 6y ago
  Nowhere does the article say that. Please don't spread made-up bullshit like this.
  - kiaraa_hk 6y ago
    Maybe you could consider that I didn't just make that up. I have a Chinese person with me, albeit non tech person, that read it for me. I could have added that "apprently it says this", but your phrasing is uncalled for.
    - oefrha 6y ago
      I happen to know the language so don’t need a Chinese person with me. And I can tell you it doesn’t say that, or anything close to that, apparently or not; it’s not a long post so it’s not like I would miss anything. If you disagree, point to the specific sentence and we can have a discussion.
      - yorwba 6y ago
        I guess it might be a misunderstanding based on 幸好之前用火绒的自定义拦截功能，设置了一些重要或敏感数据目录的保护。 "Luckily I had previously used Huorong's user-defined interception functionality to set up protection for a few important or sensitive data folders." (Which is how they noticed that QQ was trying to access them.) So yes, if your antivirus allows you to deny QQ access to your browser history, it won't read your browser history. But most QQ users probably didn't do that, considering that it went undetected for so long.
        serf 6y ago
        'disabling a rule' is a lot different than 'create a manually defined protected folder from within a third party application elsewhere'. these two statements are in no way equivalent.
        yorwba 6y ago
        Of course not, but if you retell it twice, one might turn into the other.
shbooms 6y ago
Apparently not very much. The author has since deleted the post saying: "I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me" https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?s=20 https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...
- yorwba 6y ago
  That was just someone who posted a link to the V2EX thread https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 on Twitter. Kind of ironic that the original Chinese post is still up while the tweet was deleted.

I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen. I would be very careful.

by meibo 6y ago

I wonder how much you get away with posting/publicizing RE of these things on Chinese blogs as a PRC citizen. I would be very careful.

crentist_the_d 6y ago

The article says "no, QQ is not stealing your history, you just need to disable the rule and it stops". I guess that's how they cover for themselves.

oefrha 6y ago
Nowhere does the article say that. Please don't spread made-up bullshit like this.
- kiaraa_hk 6y ago
  Maybe you could consider that I didn't just make that up. I have a Chinese person with me, albeit non tech person, that read it for me. I could have added that "apprently it says this", but your phrasing is uncalled for.
  - oefrha 6y ago
    I happen to know the language so don’t need a Chinese person with me. And I can tell you it doesn’t say that, or anything close to that, apparently or not; it’s not a long post so it’s not like I would miss anything. If you disagree, point to the specific sentence and we can have a discussion.
    - yorwba 6y ago
      I guess it might be a misunderstanding based on 幸好之前用火绒的自定义拦截功能，设置了一些重要或敏感数据目录的保护。 "Luckily I had previously used Huorong's user-defined interception functionality to set up protection for a few important or sensitive data folders." (Which is how they noticed that QQ was trying to access them.) So yes, if your antivirus allows you to deny QQ access to your browser history, it won't read your browser history. But most QQ users probably didn't do that, considering that it went undetected for so long.
      - serf 6y ago
        'disabling a rule' is a lot different than 'create a manually defined protected folder from within a third party application elsewhere'. these two statements are in no way equivalent.
        yorwba 6y ago
        Of course not, but if you retell it twice, one might turn into the other.

shbooms 6y ago

Apparently not very much. The author has since deleted the post saying: "I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me" https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?s=20 https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...

yorwba 6y ago
That was just someone who posted a link to the V2EX thread https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 on Twitter. Kind of ironic that the original Chinese post is still up while the tweet was deleted.