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Upon connecting it to the internet… I hesitate to blame the victim here, but why on earth would you do that? “$40 Chinese-made” didn’t give you pause?
by mikestew 3mo ago
Upon connecting it to the internet…
I hesitate to blame the victim here, but why on earth would you do that? “$40 Chinese-made” didn’t give you pause?
- bigmattystyles 3mo agoTo be fair, everything is Chinese made. I would be even the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield are made in China and if a state actor is determined to get a malicious payload in....
- miladyincontrol 3mo agoTo play devil's advocate, when someone says "Chinese made" they're usually well aware of your point, and are more using it as a common way to describe product mills spitting out countless devices with dubious quality or configuration. Of course theres good products made in China, and plenty of entirely Chinese brands killing it doing their thing.
- 8note 3mo agoits pretty straight racism though. its US software companies that are the worst of the worst in terms of adware and malware being shipped under monopoly control
- Eisenstein 3mo agoIts based on the most common heuristic people have developed in regards to the phenomenon. What do you think about 'alphabet soup company' instead, referring to the tendency for names to be a mix of random letters? Otherwise, you can try and create a better term for 'unaccountable third parties using US platforms to dodge liability for their product made out of the cheapest components and software possible' and see if that catches on. Yes it is also the US companies that are a problem but these are two separate problems and need different terms.
- SecretDreams 3mo agoThere's enough evil malware provider blame to go around.
- wvh 3mo agoIt's not racism at all to be weary of (any) political system, its overreach and the incentives of the people living in it, be it China or America or Russia. The word racism is vastly overused these days.
- parineum 3mo ago> its pretty straight racism though. It's not. Firstly, because countries aren't races. Second, because it's just a leftover from a time where that was a good heuristic.
- handle584 3mo ago[dead]
- fc417fc802 3mo agoThis isn't about state actors though. There's a world of difference between a name brand (possibly even a Chinese one) versus what I would term "chineseum". It's nothing to do with China per se and everything to do with purchasing from the extreme low end of the market. It just so happens that the vast majority of that segment is manufactured in China at present.
- worik 3mo ago> To be fair, everything is Chinese made Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning label. The price
- a96 2mo agoYou can put a bigger price tag over it. It won't be any better.
- speerer 3mo agoI think normally when people say Chinese made in this way, what they're really communicating is that there's no (meaningful) brand. All they know about it is that it is from China.
- r_lee 3mo agoMade in China and random Chinese brands are two very different things
- ChrisRR 3mo agoOften they're exactly the same things
- ponector 3mo agoMy Samsung phone is made in Vietnam.
- SiempreViernes 3mo agoThis is an age where even teacups demand internet connectivity to fetch firmware updates
- contravariant 3mo agoI mean I get why my cups need frequent java updates, but still.
- histriosum 3mo agoFinally, a legitimate use case for HTTP 418…
- red-iron-pine 3mo agoand they thought it was an April Fools joke, hah!
- Ballas 3mo agoAnd then what happens if someone accidentally pushes the saucer firmware to the cup update? https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-your-microwave-thinks-its-a-steam-oven/ https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...
- earleybird 3mo agoYou get a Saucerfull of Secrets :-)
- yencabulator 2mo agoI believe the correct behavior can be inferred from the RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2324/#section-2.3.2 https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2324/#section-2.3.2
- tollgategit 3mo agoAnd yet, it is now still just as stupid to do it as it was before we arrived here.
- handle584 3mo ago[dead]