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I live in an area with a lot of newly arrived Chinese grad students. Not generalizing but many of the WiFi ssids I see are : chinanumbaone , df26(one day I realized this is carrier killer missile)
[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/study-suggests-as...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-char...
https://qz.com/1116990/the-aclu-says-the-fbi-is-accusing-chi...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/sp...
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...
I live in an area with a lot of newly arrived Chinese grad students. Not generalizing but many of the WiFi ssids I see are : chinanumbaone , df26(one day I realized this is carrier killer missile)
I think the first ssid was someone's attempt at being edgy.
Believe people (individuals, groups) when they tell you who they are.
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I'm uncomfortable about the fire, too. And I'd like to trust the firefighters to handle the fire, in this case. Not alarm non-firefighters, to go rushing in the way of firefighters, kicking in doors of houses that are not on fire, etc.
> kicking in doors of houses that are not on fire, etc. I don't follow your metaphor.
China has some areas where they innovate, but they primarily excel at copying .
All innovation starts with copying what came before. This is why liberal IP laws are so important to innovation. HN readers seem to understand this basic point quite well unless China is involved.
Hmmm...
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> kicking in doors of houses that are not on fire, etc. I don't follow your metaphor.
To hazard a guess, it should be up to to security/risk experts and the like to monitor and determine where the threats come from, set policies, and deny access accordingly. It shouldn't be up to citizen watchdogs to yank computers from people because they have a terminal up appear to be hacking things.
Which is entirely reasonable, but I don't see anyone advocating this nor does the article so I'm a bit confused. Is someone advocating some kind of Chinese pogrom here?
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> kicking in doors of houses that are not on fire, etc. I don't follow your metaphor.
For example, treating a coworker poorly because of what country they're from, or what religion. Or worse, especially when unstable people get riled up by right-wing outlets.
Since you're the poster, where are you getting this from? I'm not reading that in either the replies nor the article... this feels like scaremongering in the opposite direction.
I'm a bit uncomfortable with ideas like this being promoted in the popular press so much recently. Spy-vs-spy is something that, for better or worse, nations do. It seems a complicated and delicate matter, and outside the experience of most of us. In the Boston area, we have a wealth of colleagues, neighbors, and friends who arrived here from around the world. We welcome and appreciate them. Ordinary people suspectin…
Personally, I have absolutely no trust in any of these, and I completely disagree that we should "leave it to the professionals" and let them "handle discretely" whatever is going on. This is how you end up with things like FISA courts, Gitmo, and PRISM.
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> kicking in doors of houses that are not on fire, etc. I don't follow your metaphor.
For example, treating a coworker poorly because of what country they're from, or what religion. Or worse, especially when unstable people get riled up by right-wing outlets.