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Uhhhh, not sure about you, but I wouldn't want anything Israeli within 10m of my phone.
by computerex 11mo ago
Uhhhh, not sure about you, but I wouldn't want anything Israeli within 10m of my phone.
- tguvot 11mo agoyou probably need to throw away your phone. or something. because never mind of it apple/qualcomm/android/etc - one of R&D centers that all companies have in Israel developed part of it.
- wahnfrieden 11mo agoThe controversy is Israeli remote control over all these phones. Not Israeli R&D contributing to a component. Edit: I know what they wrote
- tguvot 11mo agoparent said "anything israeli". phones are partially israeli. including baseband firmware and stuff.
- computerex 11mo agoDo you have a source?
- tguvot 11mo agoFor what? That all major companies have r&d center (or few) in Israel? Nvidia for example tripples size of one of the offices now (out of seven i think) and builds new campus in different city
- thenaturalist 11mo agoROFL. Best step up to your words and throw away your phone then. All major tech companies and chip manufacturers have R&D and design centers in Israel.
- DANmode 11mo agoIs it easy to bake vulns into chips during the design stage only? Genuine question.
- computerex 11mo agoWhat an insane argument. iPhones are assembled in China, does that mean the iPhone belongs to China? Some companies are bound to have offices in Isn'treal, do pray tell their contributions that are publicly verifiable.
- hersko 11mo agoBest throw it away then
- yb303 11mo agoIf you want to _really_ bar anything of Israeli origin, you should: - Not use Intel processors, as many are developed in Haifa - Not use a firewall. It was invented in the IDF. - Not use Waze. It's Israeli. - Not use thumb drives. Invented in Israel. - Not eat cherry tomatoes. Israeli development. The list goes on and on, but I must add - if you ever suffer a serious head or stomach injury, tell the medics to not use the Israeli bandage.
- wiredpancake 11mo ago[dead]
- tredre3 11mo agoWhat does any of that have to do with GP not wanting israeli spyware on his smartphone? Maybe your mention of Waze is tangentially related but that's about it?
- o999 11mo agoExactly, I unistalled Waze once I knew it was Israeli, as well as avoided about a dozen of VPN providers acquired by ex-Mossad led Kape Technologies
- computerex 11mo agoLet me guess, you think shawarma and hummus are also Israeli inventions. It's insane you are trying to pass off firewall as an IDF invention on hackernews. How wildly inaccurate and tone deaf.
- keybored 11mo agoConsidering the political context around Israel it is clear that cherry tomatoes being an Israeli development (apparently) is completely irrelevant here.