If was open source then could remove the reconnaisance
MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
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Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#12I only run software from Chinese companies inside a sandbox, either on my Android/iOS phone or inside a VM for desktop apps and only enable necessary permissions. Unfortunately Mainland tech giants have no sense of user privacy and would like to maximize their profit by collecting every single bit of your data because they don't profit on selling you the software, they profit on selling your data.
> Unfortunately Mainland tech giants have no sense of user privacy and would like to maximize their profit by collecting every single bit of your data because they don't profit on selling you the software, they profit on selling your data
/s/Mainland//
FTFY.
Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China. How is it any different from western apps listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to 3 letter agencies?
[citation needed] Please stop with the hyperbole. Shit is bad enough; more fake news from any direction doesn’t help.
I am not sure where hyperbole is - if your believe it is "fake news", it's your choice.
Do chinese apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely. Do western apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely.
Both concepts are evil. Talking one is evil while dropping off the other is skew of discussion towards vilifying one side and omitting the subject.
Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#14I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no deep conspiracy theory involving government level surveillance here, they are just stupid. On average, Chinese software engineers are less educated and have no sense about privacy or how to implement privacy related features properly.
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#15Shits like this is what makes me wary about Chinese made video games proliferating in the west. You never know if your kid's genshing impact or black myth wukong is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China. A competent Western administration would have banned it all years ago. But instead of securing the future of Western civilization, they want detente and cheap plastic goods instead. S…
The new Delta Force is made in China nowadays and apparently scans your whole hdd (for anti cheat).
Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#16I only run software from Chinese companies inside a sandbox, either on my Android/iOS phone or inside a VM for desktop apps and only enable necessary permissions. Unfortunately Mainland tech giants have no sense of user privacy and would like to maximize their profit by collecting every single bit of your data because they don't profit on selling you the software, they profit on selling your data.
You really have to put everything in a box nowadays. Companies are indiscriminate. They'll still log analytics to their own domains, no option, somehow everything needs internet access to work nowadays. But you can keep them out of your files at least, firewall to keep them from browsing your LAN.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
[citation needed] Please stop with the hyperbole. Shit is bad enough; more fake news from any direction doesn’t help.
I am not sure where hyperbole is - if your believe it is "fake news", it's your choice. Do chinese apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely. Do western apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely. Both concepts are evil. Talking one is evil while dropping off the other is skew of discussion towards vilifying one side and omitting the subject.
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Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#18Shits like this is what makes me wary about Chinese made video games proliferating in the west. You never know if your kid's genshing impact or black myth wukong is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China. A competent Western administration would have banned it all years ago. But instead of securing the future of Western civilization, they want detente and cheap plastic goods instead. S…
> is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China. How is it any different from western apps listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to 3 letter agencies?
I hear this theory being claimed so much, but I don't see any real evidence for it; we have routers that you can monitor traffic on, we have microphone use indicators on mobile, and I would imagine it would be pretty clear if an app was uploading audio with even very basic monitoring tools. Correct me if I'm wrong, however.
I'm not denying that a lot of data is likely surreptitiously collected, but I'm talking microphone/camera in particular.
Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#19I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no deep conspiracy theory involving government level surveillance here, they are just stupid. On average, Chinese software engineers are less educated and have no sense about privacy or how to implement p…
Privacy is a totally different concept in China, this becomes very clear once you visit a public toilet in Beijing’s Hutongs.
Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
#20This only reinforce the image, software/hardware from China and no ethics. They will do whatever they can to get hold of their user's info.