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Good advice for anyone.
It's good advice for diplomats and such. Most people are of no interest to China; why is this warning being given to athletes? Who wants to compromise them? How?
Sometimes that doesn’t matter though, such as the Sukarno sextape.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-bl...
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It's good advice for diplomats and such. Most people are of no interest to China; why is this warning being given to athletes? Who wants to compromise them? How?
It might be a bad look on the athletes country if they were to find nudes or something, for lack of a better example. Blackmail in general. Sometimes that doesn’t matter though, such as the Sukarno sextape. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-bl...
That's pretty much the point I'm making.
"Dutch civil servants used social media to spy on citizens, says study" https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/19/dutch-civil-servants-use...
"Netherlands: End dangerous mass surveillance policing experiments" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/netherlands-e...
"The Netherlands, a surveillance state?" https://www.ictrecht.nl/en/blog/the-netherlands-a-surveillan...
"Watchdog: New law lets gov't spy on "all Dutch people"" https://nltimes.nl/2015/09/01/watchdog-new-law-lets-govt-spy...
I wonder if their next phones will be Made in Netherlands, or where will they buy them from to avoid spyware built into the firmware straight out of factory. This is the kind of half baked decisions that show how those on the decision chain aren't deep into security and only are into it for the news.
I wonder if their next phones will be Made in Netherlands, or where will they buy them from to avoid spyware built into the firmware straight out of factory. This is the kind of half baked decisions that show how those on the decision chain aren't deep into security and only are into it for the news.
Good advice for anyone.
It's good advice for diplomats and such. Most people are of no interest to China; why is this warning being given to athletes? Who wants to compromise them? How?
I wonder if their next phones will be Made in Netherlands, or where will they buy them from to avoid spyware built into the firmware straight out of factory. This is the kind of half baked decisions that show how those on the decision chain aren't deep into security and only are into it for the news.
Smart move is not this kind of (even if well deserved in this case) fearmongering of specific country, but sobering/smarting up and not putting any kind of sensitive data on blackbox devices with free access to internet.
Happy to live my insignificant middle class life and not be even a bit bothered by this kind of crap. And even with full access to my phone there is nothing really bad that can be done to me / my family.
So what’s the solution? Take a clean device and then connect it to online services from China? Or are they advising against that ad well? Presumably this is about physical device searches and not the safety of internet access in general.