alt Hacker Newsthere's laws on the books in China that says that every company operating in China must aid and abet the Chinese government in espionage against the rest of the world. given those facts, I find it deeply troubling to be using anything coming out of China, especially a program that runs in the context of a Linux terminal on a machine that might have something important on it. I'd argue it's a back door waiting to happen, if not sooner than obviously later.
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Danox • today at 9:32 PM
The four biggest (obvious) backdoor countries in the world in no particular order the United States, Israel, Russia, China. Honorable mentions, North Korea, Ukraine…
tim-projects • today at 7:06 PM
Is it not better to have a country far away spying on you than your own country?
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_3u10 • today at 6:27 PM
FISA section 702 / Five eyes / Room 641A.
As a European I have to admit I am these days more worried about the US than China. See yesterday's article about the US government forcing Microsoft to give them lists of Dutch government officials. Utter madness. At least the Chinese mainly care about the money and power levers, the US about strange worlds of revenge and manipulation, trying to change or influence your government. E.g. which of the two countries has put crippling personal sanctions on staff of the international criminal court?
Honestly I'd love to love the US again, but basically after Obama things have just gone down and down and no soul will trust the US again in the next generation or two.