Apple: Sure we found it.
Chinese Government to some western company/instititution: We have detected unacceptable behavior from your employee/student/client/vendor. Please cancel them, or we will stop funding you.
PhD student at Swiss University posts something critical on Twitter. Chinese intervene at his professor.
Promotion gone with mildly interesting reasoning.
Link to Swiss newspaper in German language.
[1]: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-...
We're pretty much at a point where any hacker/leaker anywhere on earth is "found" to have committed sex crimes or have 300 gigabytes of child abuse on their computers.
Eventually Disney will be getting their hands in it to detect copyrighted content and then it's all over.
I'm much less concerned with <random malware> on my device than I am with the governments of the world having access to it.
At least the motivations of the <random malware> are generally monetary and likely don't represent a significant threat to human rights and freedom of speech.
Although with this, I think it's more likely that Disney's executives and/or employees will be charged and arrested before that happens. I mean, with this track record...
1. (Aug 2021) https://djhjmedia.com/kari/disney-workers-caught-in-child-se...
2. (Dec 2017) https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/jon-heely-disney-music-gro...
3. (June 2019) https://insidethemagic.net/2019/06/former-walt-disney-vice-s...
4. (July 2014 / Dec 2017) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/disney-employees-child-sex-ch...