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I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825
I agree with others, better open a "Tell HN" in this cases.
It's a bug. The URL was corrected to mil.no/etjenesten in the software update mentioned in the article.
Ah... the times we live in.
If it was the Chinese who were trying to spy, it'd be pretty dumb to use a .cn URL isn't it? Seems to support the US paranoia about Chinese gear and if proven as known evil, doesn't help huawei's 5g aspirations...
The Chinese don't have to be covert about their tracking activities. It's part of their society, and everyone (at least outside of China) is aware of it, and nobody inside of China is allowed to talk about it.
I have been living there for a while and Chinese people can talk about it as freely as elsewhere and most of the people I know are very aware of it.
The opinions about tracking/surveillance are not the same than in the west though and it is much more accepted here. In my social circle, a large majority of Chinese people would prefer security over privacy or just don't really care.
Hard to believe for a westerner like me, but people are happy about it so far.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Chinese don't have to be covert about their tracking activities. It's part of their society, and everyone (at least outside of China) is aware of it, and nobody inside of China is allowed to talk about it.
People inside China are very aware of it; most just don't care that much. They (willingly, if not happily) trade what westerners might consider pillars of freedom for widespread prosperity. When you consider the progress China has made over the last 50 years from the perspective of a typical Chinese citizen, you can see why they make that bargain.
In the meantime, I recommend the following:
1. Remove any unnecessary packages through ADB (https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...)
2. Use Shelter (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/)
3. Use a VPN-Firewall such as NetGuard (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/) or NoRoot Firewall (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts...).
I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825
I wonder how often this kind of comments fall through the cracks like this. Happened to me too with something privacy related about one of the big Corps that then was noticed by everyone else a few weeks later... I agree with others, better open a "Tell HN" in this cases.
I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825