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>What can be done to mitigate this? Buy hardware used by government computers that are rivals to your country. So if American, buy Chinese CPUs and install Ch
by v5v3 2mo ago
>What can be done to mitigate this?
Buy hardware used by government computers that are rivals to your country.
So if American, buy Chinese CPUs and install Chinese Linux or HarmoneyOS Assuming there is nothing you are doing of interest to them, as that will also have back doors
After Snowden, one can only imagine the worst and think everything has a backdoor.
But unless you are a high level terrorist or other person of interest, no state organization is going to target you at this level
P.s. you say no one can trust closed source, but a lot of open source is maintained by one or two people or a small group, just takes infiltration by one or two trusted contributors to push malicious code in and unless someone looks and finds that code amongst millions of lines of code, may never be discovered (more so as mainstream media won't publish any thing)
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- amelius 2mo agoIf many people do this then I'm sure China will find some uses for that data at some point.
- Zigurd 2mo agoSure but the cops aren't going to pull you over based on what you think about Chinese policy. Government do mess with people across international borders, but the capacity to do that is inherently limited.
- amelius 2mo agoBlackmail is still a possibility ... Plus your data can be sold on the market. To US based entities. While the Chinese still hold on to the data for future uses ...
- Zigurd 2mo agoThat still doesn't resolve who is more likely to blackmail or otherwise misuse data. I think it's a Chinese saying: the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.
- fsflover 2mo agoCan't Chinese government exchange the data with your government whenever they need it?
- skinfaxi 2mo ago> Sure but the cops aren't going to pull you over based on what you think about Chinese policy. You might be surprised to learn that China has operated clandestine prisons in the US! https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-arrested-operati...
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- shrubble 2mo agoI was thinking about something similar recently: if you bought a US govt purchased laptop like the ruggedized Dell Latitude I saw, would it be less likely to have Intel's IME enabled?
- iamnothere 2mo agoWhile I do think this is a good idea, it may no longer be as good as it once was: https://journalrecord.com/2026/08/05/fbi-law-enforcement-ties-china-russia-kash-patel/ https://journalrecord.com/2026/08/05/fbi-law-enforcement-tie... If you’re just an average dissident, it’s probably still good advice though.