China crisis is a TikToking time bomb
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> If you want a taste of what they’re up against, if you own a Chinese-brand smartphone and you’re Linux-savvy, go and look at what’s in the firmware and process list. You will be entertained.
Being Linux savvy doesn't apply to Android. I checked my new stock Xiaomi and it has no keyloggers, whereas the last time I got a Samsung device it was logging key taps, sms contents and calls.
Either that or the reg has really gone down hill...
I think it sadly did. :(
We should be questioning the motives behind any company directly affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.
It makes the suggester look like a racist conspiracy wingnut because there is a no evidence to suggest there is anything more than a routine investment.
Even if ByteDance sold all equity to US owners, moved all servers to the US, and changed teams to only US and European workers, some people will still hold onto sour grapes because someone else is successful. That's the ideology of someone who gave up on competition and is resigned to criticism from the sidelines.
Feel free to engage in whataboutism with Meta and the US government, it doesn't take anything away from what I or the article we're commenting on have said.
The rules they are operating under are not the same.
I don't follow why it's not a good idea for every organization to ban CandyCrush, Grindr, SpyOnYourEx, CheatOnYourSpouse, RandomAppFromWherever from work devices. BYOD is also a terrible idea, and then leap to the conclusion little red agents are converting your children to Marxist totalitarianism. The two ideas are completely different.
Unfortunately, China is winning in the rest of the world for the same reason. While western citizens and companies are well protected, the West has intentionally kept the rest of the world vulnerable for self dirty interest. We have seen the Western hypocrisy in policies and moral codes destroying societies for decades all over the world. If the Western code of conducts for the rest of the world were hypocrisy free, Chinese slithering would have been impossible, and the world would be a lot better than it is now.