I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.

Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”

A lot of what Trump wanted Greenland for was already available to him had he asked nicely (and not had a reputation as a nazi freak). I’m sure he’ll chalk up “using NATO for its intended purpose as it was originally designed” as some kind of negotiation triumph. The better question might be what the rest of Europe plans to do in anticipation of his next flip-flop and reckless power grab.

Currently, Trump’s team is drawing up plans to issue asylum claims to British Jews, on the grounds that they are a persecuted minority within the country and need special protection within the US. As the hysteria around anti-semitism in England crests, one has to wonder what his next move will be.

I’m a Millenial and use lol and lmao

My Greatest Generation grandmother also used them, particularly in her waning years

lmao

This seems to be the bottom of every “America Good, China Bad” argument.

Just 😂🤣🇺🇸😹. It’s Obvious, Idiot. Just Think Logically.

Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally

Is it? Is this worth interrogating, even slightly? Is there any actual difference between industrial models or design philosophies?

No. Lolz. Roflcopter.

I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.

I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.

I guess time is a flat circle

Absolutely nothing in the rules against it. “Being Offline” isn’t a protected class.

I love how Trump has exactly one note to play and he just wails on it at every opportunity

Facebook marketing across high schools and colleges is intense. And because it’s such a pivotal platform, you kinda need to get one and build up a - let’s call it a social credit score - just so you can endure admittance counselors and employers demanding to see your account as part of the screening process.

Sort of like getting a credit card as a teenager so you can prove you’re credit worthy enough for an apartment or car loan in your twenties. You just have to post generic mundane bullshit on the timeline and join generic mundane groups so people see you as “normal”.

Are you truly implying it’d be more secure to buy Chinese tech then US specifically

Only if your primary concern was US-centric surveillance. If you cared about Chinese surveillance, idfk. Big hanging question mark as to whether American native systems are more compromised than Chinese native systems. All I can say for sure is that American systems are confirmed compromised by both US-friendly surveillance and Chinese hacker groups.

That’s quite the take lmao.

It’s very easy to believe “Thing from China bad because China Bad”. But once you look into the actual security schema for these tools and applications, you discover Americans did an excellent job of leaving their hardware exposed to domestic infiltration and a terrible job of securing it against foreign intrusion.

You think the USA is going to start WWIII?

Greenland does. Venezuela does. Iran does.

You know what the best evidence is for “China Bad”? They promoted and endorsed Donald Trump

Honestly, where do you even get this shit? The people who promoted Donald Trump were Americans. And they’d been promoting him since the 1970s. Nobody in China gave a shit about Trump until January 6th, 2017.

Sure. But to say the American entrenchment around American tech companies is some kind of buffer to Chinese spying clearly hasn’t born out in practice. Americans have pockmarked their tech with security vulnerabilities and Chinese hackers have waltzed right through them. You aren’t safer from the CCP because you’re on American hardware. Just the opposite.

They think they invented “random” humor

Do they? Most seem to know damned well that they got it from their parents / older siblings.

Can’t believe a bunch of college freshmen would be into porn and masturbating. When I went to college it was totally different. We were all chaste as nuns and modest and church mice.

Oh whoa is society! The Youngs are ruining everything! Would that they behaved in the way I remember my generation doing it - diligent, virtuous, humble, and perfectly in every way.

The argument - that goes back to the Bush “War on Terror” anti-China tech policy - is that any hardware produced outside the NATO sphere could leave domestic users vulnerable to foreign surveillance.

But scratch the surface of this critique and you find something very different. It’s the US technology that’s riddled with backdoors.

According to reports, the hack took advantage of systems built by ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) to give law enforcement and intelligence agencies access to the ISPs’ user data. This gave China unprecedented access to data related to U.S. government requests to these major telecommunications companies. It’s still unclear how much communication and internet traffic, and related to whom, Salt Typhoon accessed.

The problem with Chinese technology is that, in many cases, American surveillance companies haven’t penetrated it. A domestic market with Chinese phones and routers and other online gadgets riddles the Five Eyes Panopticon with blind spots.

All the major telecoms are heavily exposed to the computer hardware market.

Sure, the majority aren’t seeing a payoff. But we only really care about the Magnificent Seven and their increased revenue from government contracts (particularly Pentagon weapons platforms and public-private surveillance deals).

Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ?

That’s the one. They’re run by absolute pieces of corporate shit, but they do still seem to recognize the market driven writing on the wall.

The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE.

The pool in Europe is a lot shallower, especially in the wake of the Russia/Ukraine war. They don’t have the same access to cheap fossil fuels that the US enjoys, so they’re being forced to pivot to EVs entirely due to their regional limitations. They’re also competing internationally in a market with a growing Global South demand. Many of these countries are undergoing electrification far faster than they’re seeing a petrochemical expansion, in no small part thanks to the high installation costs of pipelines and processing plants relative to electric grids and renewables generation.

The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.

The entire EU economy has stalled out with the war. But they’ve seen a double-digit upswing in EV sales in Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.