• eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    American is not better. Anybody remember Edward Snowden? I’m sure it’s only gotten worse since then.

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      4 days ago

      Oh yeah, to be clear I was just clarifying the structure. I don’t consider American companies to be any more trustworthy than companies based elsewhere.

    • nfreak@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is. That being said, I highly doubt the GOS devs would even consider any collaboration if a backdoor was ever a possibility.

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        3 days ago

        The possibility of backdoors is unavoidable, and it’s part of their threat model. It’s why the mobile baseband is isolated, for example.

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        4 days ago

        The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is

        If you’re American*

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 days ago

          or any global north country, honestly, especially in the five eyes

          there’s not much one could do to anger the chinese government enough for them to risk sending agents to kidnap or kill a westerner

          all the US needs is a request to law enforcement

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            3 days ago

            or any global north country, honestly, especially in the five eyes

            I dunno what that means. US doesn’t have jurisdiction outside the US, just like China doesn’t have jurisdiction outside of China, so not a whole lot they can do to you. I have heard of Chinese kidnapping their own people who fled to the US, but I’m not sure how true that is.

            all the US needs is a request to law enforcement

            In the US, yes. Not even that, really.