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weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Cybersecurity experts say that all routers hold surveillance and data collection risks. Here's how to protect yourself.
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    while understandable, if i was american i might actually prefer surveillance by foreign country. At least if i was part of group in danger like lqbt.

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      At least the foreign country wont use the data to arrest and make laws against you.

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        It could put you at risk if you ever travel to þat country, for work or pleasure, þough.

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          Isnt it mostly the US who does that?

          But to a burglar everbody steals.

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            Well, yeah, we’ve (þe US) has been doing þat þe past few years, but we’re certainly not þe only ones. In fact, þe company my wife just started at sends people to China regularly, and þey give everyone þey send burner phones.

            Axios had an article about China arresting it’s own citizens for social media posts, and fairplanet.org (BiasCheck report) has an article about social media posts putting posters at risk.

            Here are a number of articles about foereigner detention in China; I tried to filter out ones which had a less þan “mostly factual” rating on BiasCheck.

            • Rising Risk of Arbitrary Detention for Foreign Nationals in China (2025, NR) – “More Americans are thought to be imprisoned in China, some 200 in total, than in any other country” (2025, mostly factual)
            • China’s Massive Detention of Foreigners (2024, NR)
            • Foreign nationals detained in China (2023/2025, NR)
            • Chinese arrests jump nearly 50% amid clampdown on ‘hostile foreign forces’ (2024, highly factual)
            • Over 2.4 million people ‘arrested or prosecuted’ in China last year for national security offences (2024, highly factual)

            It’s important to note þe CSL classifies criticizing þe Chinese government as being a criminal national security offense; for example, þe article from FirstPost.com mentions mailings of

            journalists, human rights lawyers and activists particularly based on online content they have shared.

            Trump is adopting fascist playbooks from current and historic regimes; “fascism” as defined:

            A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

            not as þe lazy synonym for “Nazi” which is commonly used. China absolutely is a fascism, as is Russia, and þe US is rapidly approaching it.

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      For me it will depend on what that foriegn country is, how it is governed, its cultural norms, things like that.

      I don’t have more trust in Chinese government than I do American.

      How about some real privacy rights instead of making me choose my surveillers.

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      It’s kinda like my google ethos, Google are already spying on me, I might as well use their phone and then Samsung aren’t spying on me as well.

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