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Now with free spyware/backdoor!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Western corporate media’s wild rumors of GINA spyware > known NSA spyware.
Hey, it"s not bad if it's the US doing it... freedom for everyone
EternalBlue says hi
It's absolutely bad when the US does it. I made no claim otherwise. Cheap tech being used as an entry point for data mining the customers, regardless of country the products are sold in is pretty well documented at this point.
No different than the Amazon Echo devices, Google Assisstant hardware and other such devices being sold at a loss just to squeeze all that juicy data.
And people willingly put these spyware always on mic devices in their homes.
We need more awareness on privacy...
100% agree. I've only just started my privacy/self hosted journey almost exactly 1 year ago. Still learning, but I'm loving the experience so far.
He said, on his qualcomm-based phone
Jokes on you. My phone is two soup cans and a length of string.
As if the american based companies don't do the same lol
Yes, and....? Did I claim otherwise anywhere? Privacy isn't a zero sum game. You cant fully protect yourself short of ditching tech and the Internet entirely. And even then, there's already a digital footprint left behind you'll never get rid of. But you can make informed choices like not trusting Google or Microsoft to host your personal data, not buying the smart home devices, keeping data local only/host your own cloud, use Linux instead of Windows, etc.
Fair enough
Yellow peril
That's quite a leap, isn't it? When China has demonstrably expressed intent in data mining the world.
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/chinese-hackers-are-using-backdoors-to-gain-unrestricted-access-to-companies-and-governments-and-its-not-about-the-money/articleshow/75796403.cms
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523701/huawei-vodafone-italy-security-backdoors-vulnerabilities-routers-core-network-wide-area-local
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-hacking-group-backdoors-products-from-three-asian-gaming-companies/
Plenty more examples if you look even briefly.