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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

They‘ll just make it with secret phone-home spying and backdoors.

E: what‘s this? All these folks either saying the US does it or skipping past all the phone-home spyware China includes in devices? Guess that means cheaper spying hardware is ok then?

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Well if the choice is between cheap spying hardware and expensive spying hardware...

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Also it is a bit easier to de-spyware chinese devices.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sooo, same as right now, but with way less possibility to be used against me? Sign me up!

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For now, once China becomes the dominant power, they will certainly abuse it as much as the USA do.

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Like they haven't already in Asia?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 13 hours ago

Sure, not just world wide like the USA currently.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Even if that happens (which is not an inevitability, since China historically has been doing things quite differently from the US), it is no worse than status quo. Until then, unless you are an active threat to China, and are planning on visiting it, you don't have to worry about it.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 20 hours ago

Two wrongs make a right?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

It seems to be that you're mistaken, the NSA and Snowden aren't Chinese, they're from the USA