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China used Huawei to hack network, says report

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Re: China used Huawei to hack network, says report

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dforrestwilson wrote: post #9
raprp wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Buy Apple or Google's phones instead. They would never leak customer data for the US government. Oh wait...

One government is vastly more transparent than the other. One company is government subsidized and the others are not. Hard to make a genuine privacy comparison with a straight face.

Already forgot PRISM ? No wonder they do stuff like this when the public attention span is so small.

Re: China used Huawei to hack network, says report

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Post by sametmax »

mabbo wrote: post #4

> Don't think about this in terms of just governments tracking you. Consider if you have any work emails containing company secrets in them. Consider if you have 2FA apps installed that you would use to unlock or change your work password. And since it was almost certainly the Chinese Intel/Military that helps Huawei and other companies, you can be sure that whatever information Huawei gets access to doesn't need to…

I got a one plus, and now i'm wondering...

But let's be honest, iphones and android parts are manufactured in china. There are most probably a lot of spying hardware we don't know about that call the mother land.

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Post by freehunter »

sametmax wrote: post #14
mabbo wrote: post #4

> Don't think about this in terms of just governments tracking you. Consider if you have any work emails containing company secrets in them. Consider if you have 2FA apps installed that you would use to unlock or change your work password. And since it was almost certainly the Chinese Intel/Military that helps Huawei and other companies, you can be sure that whatever information Huawei gets access to doesn't need to…

I got a one plus, and now i'm wondering... But let's be honest, iphones and android parts are manufactured in china. There are most probably a lot of spying hardware we don't know about that call the mother land.

Do you think Apple blindly trusts the hardware that comes from their factories? I have no evidence either way, but I would be very surprised if their hardware experts in the US didn't tear down and verify the parts that get shipped to them, like they did with the SuperMicro motherboards.

The idea that there is a lot of spying hardware in an iPhone that Apple doesn't know about is an extraordinary claim.

Re: China used Huawei to hack network, says report

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Post by bordercases »

freehunter wrote: post #15
sametmax wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got a one plus, and now i'm wondering... But let's be honest, iphones and android parts are manufactured in china. There are most probably a lot of spying hardware we don't know about that call the mother land.

Do you think Apple blindly trusts the hardware that comes from their factories? I have no evidence either way, but I would be very surprised if their hardware experts in the US didn't tear down and verify the parts that get shipped to them, like they did with the SuperMicro motherboards. The idea that there is a lot of spying hardware in an iPhone that Apple doesn't know about is an extraordinary claim.

> I have no evidence either way

Should you blindly trust Apple's process?

Re: China used Huawei to hack network, says report

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Post by sschueller »

dforrestwilson wrote: post #9
raprp wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Buy Apple or Google's phones instead. They would never leak customer data for the US government. Oh wait...

One government is vastly more transparent than the other. One company is government subsidized and the others are not. Hard to make a genuine privacy comparison with a straight face.

Secret Fisa courts aren't exactly transparent.
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