Nah, I think the latter would be great. Sure, short term it could cause issues, though not really for the average person. China will use it to influence politics for those people maybe, but they don’t have any large use for it. The US government has far more use for it in regard to them, so that’s actually a threat. It would be a risk for the government and western companies.
The benefit of this being lost to China is they’d have to fix what backdoors they can, and maybe reconsider creating new ones. This is a huge benefit to American consumers. It only hurts those who asked for the backdoors in the first place, which is presumably the US government.
I don’t live in China, so I’m not really worried about China’s government. I live in the US, so I’m worried about the US government.
Zero chance of them not replacing or patching backdoors if another actor gets access.
China having a backdoor into everybody’s intel systems is terrible. Nobody should have backdoors into our computers. There are no impartial, apolitical or morally or ethically positive organization out there. Bias is literally everywhere.
I didn’t say China having it was bad. I said the US having it is significantly worse. What’s China going to use it for against me? They can’t arrest me or anything.
Maybe they use your system to generate illicit traffic that incriminates you, and then they offer to keep it secret or fix it so long as you go along with whatever objective you might be useful for.
I literally don’t care what nation it is though. They’re all evil. If there’s a chance for them to use anybody anywhere to further their goals, they’ll take it.
Nah, I think the latter would be great. Sure, short term it could cause issues, though not really for the average person. China will use it to influence politics for those people maybe, but they don’t have any large use for it. The US government has far more use for it in regard to them, so that’s actually a threat. It would be a risk for the government and western companies.
The benefit of this being lost to China is they’d have to fix what backdoors they can, and maybe reconsider creating new ones. This is a huge benefit to American consumers. It only hurts those who asked for the backdoors in the first place, which is presumably the US government.
I don’t live in China, so I’m not really worried about China’s government. I live in the US, so I’m worried about the US government.
Zero chance of them not replacing or patching backdoors if another actor gets access.
China having a backdoor into everybody’s intel systems is terrible. Nobody should have backdoors into our computers. There are no impartial, apolitical or morally or ethically positive organization out there. Bias is literally everywhere.
I didn’t say China having it was bad. I said the US having it is significantly worse. What’s China going to use it for against me? They can’t arrest me or anything.
Use your imagination as if you’re a spy agency.
Maybe they use your system to generate illicit traffic that incriminates you, and then they offer to keep it secret or fix it so long as you go along with whatever objective you might be useful for.
I literally don’t care what nation it is though. They’re all evil. If there’s a chance for them to use anybody anywhere to further their goals, they’ll take it.