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Definitely agreed on the TAO and surveillance, upvoted in fact for that. But, again, I'll "buy that bridge" when it comes to an Apple product-supply-chain bein
by irjustin 5y ago
Definitely agreed on the TAO and surveillance, upvoted in fact for that.
But, again, I'll "buy that bridge" when it comes to an Apple product-supply-chain being hacked by a state actor to target an individual.
CCP can't bank on a specific Apple product being purchased by a specific person routed through their side/controlled supply chain.
As before, most apple products are not routed directly from China to a consumer. This is a pretty rare circumstance given the supply chain bottlenecks.
I agree both sides have the ability to "hold product" in the shipping lane to do all sorts of nefarious things, but that only works if you can predict that movement (i.e. destination being on "your side" of control). The specific circumstances matter here and they don't make it an attack vector against a specific person.
- lazide 5y agoFYI - Every Apple product I've bought in the last year or two was routed directly from China to me. From multiple iPads, an iphone, and a macbook pro. With the pandemic shutting down a lot of Apple store traffic, it's probably become more pronounced if anything. Definitely not the case for everyone, especially an enterprise, but I bought it via the apple store app and the tracking showed it from China -> Chinese Customs -> To me, and through fedex. So they had all the information they would need in one place to do what I am describing in at least this scenario. Someone somewhere puts the persons name and address into a To address for a shipping company. If the origination is in China and it's sold direct, that final address and name will be on that label, and in the tracking database. It doesn't have to be perfect to catch a decent number of targets. If even 25% of the purchased products get intercepted this way for a target it will likely be effective.