Home is where my government has a backdoor https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/14/fbi-nsa-cia-warn-against-huawei-smartphones/ …
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Replying to @Plinz
Home is where my government is in an protectionists trade war with the country which it is indebted with the most?
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Replying to @samim
The NSA is not targeting Foxconn or other Chinese phone makers. I think it is not unreasonable to assume that not only the US installs backdoors, and someone really saw grounds to be upset.
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Replying to @Plinz
"NSA is not targeting Foxconn etc" is unlikely. Evidence of related cases (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-brazil-oil-petrobras … / https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-spied-on-eu-politicians-and-companies-with-help-from-german-intelligence/ … etc.etc.etc) points towards a different reality. The interesting question for me is, how much are NSA & Chinas efforts privatised and unified by now?
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Replying to @samim
The US government makes a suspicious show of being angry at Apple for crypto, but does not warn against their Chinese suppliers. State surveillance is not fully privatized, because it needs to be tightly controlled, and US and China governments are not allies but competitors.
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Replying to @Plinz
On the surface, it's hard to disagree. But considering the following makes one paranoid: A) all critical data of global societies are in databases. B) all databases are inherently insecure and leak all the time. C) obtaining and merging databases is technically *very* easy.
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Replying to @samim
No large government had its citizen data leaked so far (but many tools of US and UK have leaked, so we have a fair idea about the data they keep). The US has lost an employee db, which was serious, though. But the biggest trove might be commercially accessible data.
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Replying to @Plinz
"No large government had its citizen data leaked so far"? How about Equifax: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/13/equifax_security_breach_bad/ … Plus even more seriously, in 2017 there were over 100 very serious data-breaches at major hospitals across the US and EU. And that's only what we know...
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Not a government. This is not a mistake of the executive, but a shortcoming of the legislative.
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