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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

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Post by jesterson »

anonym29 wrote: post #34
jesterson wrote: post #8

Earlier 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?

The difference is that the Chinese intelligence agencies abide by Chinese law and don't really pose any kind of threat to American citizens, while the American intelligence agencies engage in unconstitutional schemes (as ruled by a federal judge) to illegally spy on Americans and lie about it to both congress and the American people, murder American citizens, and can, at any moment they want, fabricate evidence to pr…

To address your last paragraph - it’s not unlikely the latter use all powers to divert attention to the former as it conceals shenanigans of the latter

Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

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Post by Crestwave »

djtango wrote: post #6
michaellee8 wrote: post #2

I 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.

How do you sandbox on mobile? I can't say I love having various apps like wechat on my phone...

I quite like Shelter [1]. Shelter apps are installed in a separate work profile, which essentially sandboxes it from the rest of your data. It also has a neat feature to automatically disable (freeze) specific apps and seamlessly re-enable them when you launch them through Shelter.

[1] https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter

Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

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Post by deaux »

wildzzz wrote: post #35
anonym29 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that the Chinese intelligence agencies abide by Chinese law and don't really pose any kind of threat to American citizens, while the American intelligence agencies engage in unconstitutional schemes (as ruled by a federal judge) to illegally spy on Americans and lie about it to both congress and the American people, murder American citizens, and can, at any moment they want, fabricate evidence to pr…

The consensus is usually "well the government only targets you when you probably deserve it" whereas china is spying on everyone regardless of your opinion of the actions of the current administration.

> The consensus is usually "well the government only targets you when you probably deserve it"

Not sure where you got that consensus from, it sounds made up to me or at least outdated as of Feb 2026, especially on HN.

Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

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Post by Cieric »

chromehearts wrote: post #50
debazel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a massive difference between having a country spying on it's own citizen versus having an adversarial country doing it. The three-letter agencies would likely not be trying to sabotage or destroy their own country's economy and global standing for one.

As someone from the EU, could I not use the argument to argue that for me it's both an adversarial country?

As someone from the US I would suggest viewing both as adversarial. I don't really trust my own government, but if I was born abroad I would trust them even less.

Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

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Post by wiseowise »

thenthenthen wrote: post #15
pibaker wrote: post #7

Shits 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).

For security, yo.

Re: MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

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Post by wiseowise »

ziml77 wrote: post #42

I'm a little wary of believing this without confirmation. It certainly sounds like something an app from a big Chinese company might do, but the LLM writing style with em-dashes replaced by double hyphens looked like someone trying to hide that they use an LLM. And I noticed that the account for the Gist submission is only 3 hours old. And then looking here the account on HN is also only 3 hours old. Seems a little s…

Totally, Chinese software would never do anything like that. Shocking news, I say, shocking!

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Post by victorbjorklund »

rexpop wrote: post #33
pdpi wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The context is somebody asking "Mainland US or Mainland China?" The comment you're responding to brought up Taiwan because that's the natural "not-mainland" when you're talking about China.

What?? China and Taiwan are two separate countries.

Both are claiming to be the real China.

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Post by chpatrick »

chromehearts wrote: post #50
debazel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a massive difference between having a country spying on it's own citizen versus having an adversarial country doing it. The three-letter agencies would likely not be trying to sabotage or destroy their own country's economy and global standing for one.

As someone from the EU, could I not use the argument to argue that for me it's both an adversarial country?

I don't know why you're being downvoted, the US has been way more belligerent towards the EU recently than China.
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