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thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
by ct0 5y ago
thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.
- 908B64B197 5y agoSpyware and cheap knockoffs. Also rampant IP theft [0]. As they say, chabuduo! [1] [0] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-correcting-the-record https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c... [1] https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/ https://mothership.sg/2018/05/what-is-chabuduo/
- vachina 5y agoHN cannot seem to decide whether to hate or love IP protection.
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- xster 5y agoare there concrete cases you're thinking about?
- tragictrash 5y agoIt's china. They have been caught putting chips in servers to infiltrate US companies. It's everywhere. The CCP takes what the CCP wants. If you work for one of these companies like Huawei, or Boox or whatever, when the Chinese government asks you to do something nefarious, you comply because you want to keep existing. They ain't asking.
- est 5y agoCaught putting chips in servers is as plausible as putting chips in masks.
- tragictrash 5y agoAfter receiving this feedback, I went and reexamined this issue. It was reported by multiple outlets, but never corroborated. I sincerely apologize for perpetuating misinformation. I should have looked at this issue harder when it happened, and again before posting about it.
- xster 5y agoYou're probably referring to the Bloomberg chip hack 2018 article that had no primary source, that was doubled down on and still has no source.
- curiousgal 5y agoIf I had to choose between China and Big Tech spying on me (and I technically do) I would pick China any and every time honestly.
- xibalba 5y ago[flagged]
- president 5y ago> HN has long been infiltrated by CCP-backed commenters I suspect this is true to some degree but I also think there is no shortage of Chinese nationalists and anti-Americans (including Americans) who by default, upvote anything that has a pro-China agenda and downvote anything that has anti-China agenda.
- rodgerd 5y ago> anti-Americans (including Americans) Alas, tankies and campies exist.
- kalium-xyz 5y agoPeople do not possess ideas, ideas possess people. There is no escaping the memeplexes driving these and our posts.
- caslon 5y agoI don't live in China. The Chinese are many miles away. I am not worth nuking, and I am not at risk of being involved in a genocide. I live in a surveillance state. I don't really like being surveilled. Big companies share data between each other, and it influences my ability to do things like obtaining a house, or getting insurance. The Chinese have nothing to do with my data. Western companies, on the other hand, can make a good deal of profit from data in aggregate, and don't care if it harms other people. The Chinese stick to their own people (and what they believe to be China). Western companies, on the other hand, will track everyone on the globe, without any consent at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI I don't use Chinese software; it's just that the person's claim isn't nearly as insane as you're making it out to be. They're acting more rationally than you are, here. It's not Chinese scaremongering or anti-anti-Chinese scaremongering to acknowledge that China can't really do much to the average Western citizen in aggregate.
- filomeno 5y ago