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From the article: Relations between Lithuania and China have soured recently. China demanded last month that Lithuania withdraw its ambassador in Beijing and said it would recall its envoy to Vilnius after Taiwan announced that its mission in Lithuania would be called the Taiwanese Representative Office No one trust China but this sure looks like politically motivated. Was someone else able to authenticate or reprodu…
Are there any good non-Chinese smartphone besides Samsung? Preferably someone who delivers a stock android?
Free Tibet. I just typed that on my Xiaomi with stock MIUI, using Google Gboard.
Unless you are based in China, a Chinese national, a known dissident or a journalist it doesn't really matter, does it? Also, how do you know what Xiaomi did after you typed it? EDIT: As I really phrased it badly, I mean it doesn't proof anything if none of the above mentioned groups does it. It absolutely matters that Xiaomi is censoring and monitoring stuff based on key words. I oppose that even more than oppose Ap…
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Isn't the baseband Qualcomm code? Do you think Qualcomm allowed Xiaomi to run their own baseband on it?
Do you think a Chinese company would even ask for permission? :)
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I don't think there were allegations that you couldn't type Free Tibet?
What exactly are the allegations then? "have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet" Censor by preventing one posting the phrase? Removing the phrase from web pages? What are the steps to reproduce?
Xiaomi system applications (Security, MiBrowser, Cleaner, MIUI Package Installer and Themes) have been found to regularly download the manufacturer’s updated configuration file MiAdBlacklistConfig from a server located in Singapore. This file contains a list composed of the titles, names and other information of various religious and political groups and social movements (at the time the analysis was performed, 449 records were identified in the MiAdBlacklistConfig file). Analysis of the Xiaomi application code showed that the applications have implemented software classes for filtering the target multimedia displayed on the device according to the downloaded MiAdBlacklistConfig list. This allows a Xiaomi device to perform an analysis of the target multimedia content entering a phone: to search for keywords based on the MiAdBlacklist list received from the server. When it is determined that such content contains keywords from the list, the device blocks this content. It is thought that this functionality can pose potential threats to the free availability of information.
PDF here: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysi...
I think you would have to be mad to leave the stock ROM running on a Xiaomi phone, IIRC they were caught logging peoples browser history a few years ago. Several models have mainline LineageOS support, I'm running Lineage on my Mix 2S and hope to have years worth of updates going forward. The hardware is really good value as long as you install an non-tainted OS.
Most people don't care if another country spies on them, since their laws don't apply to them. They would care much more if they are profiled by their own government. Or more like tech companies on behalf of the government spying on them, and them being discriminated, harassed, or jailed based on that data. So in a way its actually kind of smart to go with a Chinese phone if you live in America.