Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

  • cunnilingsus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the “Use FOSS” part, but I can’t help but notice a double standard thats often taken when these kinds of stories pop up. How come whenever a Chinese compant does something like this, China is always at fault? Why is it never America’s fault when something like this happens with an American company or product?

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      1 year ago

      I wanted to ask if you were born yesterday but I’ll try to be more educative than sassy.

      All companies in China exist purely with the blessing of the political party. No approval, no company. Everything is done by their books.

    • yogurt@lemmy.world
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      Unexamined racism. “Collectivist asians” and denying Asian individuality is very normal in the US/Europe. Malcolm Gladwell can write a book saying Koreans are culturally incapable of flying an airplane and it’s fine. When Asians have human emotions it’s normal to turn it into some special exoticized thing like “saving face”. White people are individuals, Asians are a horde, nothing in Anglo culture prepares or encourages people to think about Chinese people as a billion individuals wandering around doing stuff for the same reasons you do. They’re a singular alien unit, if you go to war with Japan it’s only natural to lock all the Japanese people in a camp. Basically every book and newspaper article you’ve ever read talks about them they’re all wired together like the Borg, unless you put a ton of effort into critical thinking there’s no reason to escape that assumption.