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What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by kzhe@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When it comes to hardware, isn't the situation usually...

American company is spying on customers through hardware it sold
American government is actively trying to spy on citizens through hardware (American-made or not), but the company blocks them unless they have a warrant
Chinese company freely shares data back and forth through the Chinese government using their hardware thanks to "backdoors"

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the company blocks them unless they have a warrant

Heard of FISA courts and gag orders? Every single company involved in Snowden leaks had one for PRISM, and for every single NSA ops conducted since 1970s. This is an open thing.

You may go read pages 63 and 64 here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

Chinese company freely shares data back and forth through the Chinese government using their hardware thanks to "backdoors"

I never get evidence from US government for this, despite the bullshit propaganda they invent and disseminate via media. Even Germany and UK's GCHQ declared Huawei 5G gear to be clean, until USA nudged them to quietly align with the "narrative" and protect NATO's xenophobic interests, if they do not want consequences. What are these Chinese hardware backdoors, that I barely see anything on, compared to that on Cisco routers, Intel, AMD, Siemens, Nokia and other US/Europe tech companies?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How else is China collecting all its data on its citizens?

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Very, very basic userspace level software methods. Methods that do not even need to go as deep as Facebook/Google/Apple or others.

Spying on people is easier than you think. Create fear and citizens will comply with just about anything for their "safety". But in China's case, the two Opium Wars lost against the 8 Nation Alliance is far too traumatic, and that serves as the fuel for current and old people to never see their children in the same world. The "Century of Humiliation" is a phrase easy to notice, and they are quite keen on regaining their global financial position they had before Western Industrial Revolution and Britain's "laissez faire" colonialism happened.