I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.
I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.
When it comes to hardware, isn’t the situation usually…
Heard of FISA courts and gag orders? Every single company involved in Snowden leaks had one for PRISM, and for every single NSA ops conducted since 1970s. This is an open thing.
You may go read pages 63 and 64 here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf
I never get evidence from US government for this, despite the bullshit propaganda they invent and disseminate via media. Even Germany and UK’s GCHQ declared Huawei 5G gear to be clean, until USA nudged them to quietly align with the “narrative” and protect NATO’s xenophobic interests, if they do not want consequences. What are these Chinese hardware backdoors, that I barely see anything on, compared to that on Cisco routers, Intel, AMD, Siemens, Nokia and other US/Europe tech companies?
How else is China collecting all its data on its citizens?
Very, very basic userspace level software methods. Methods that do not even need to go as deep as Facebook/Google/Apple or others.
Spying on people is easier than you think. Create fear and citizens will comply with just about anything for their “safety”. But in China’s case, the two Opium Wars lost against the 8 Nation Alliance is far too traumatic, and that serves as the fuel for current and old people to never see their children in the same world. The “Century of Humiliation” is a phrase easy to notice, and they are quite keen on regaining their global financial position they had before Western Industrial Revolution and Britain’s “laissez faire” colonialism happened.