Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.
This seems like a logical step, both as a political counter move to the US limiting Huawei and TikTok, and as an actual security measure. If the Chinese state can get intel from Huawei devices, surely the US can get intel from iphones. I’m surprised they didn’t include Microsoft.
Edit: a word.
- downpunxx ( @downpunxx@kbin.social ) 48•1 year ago
Of course it is, for the Chinese. Listen, if it isn’t a homegrown tech product, it’s a threat to your national security, and even most of the homegrown ones are, regardless of what nation you’re from or in. This is fact.
USA: let’s ban Huawei
China:
Thing is, Huawei had a shitload of connections with the CCP. We’re speaking about funding, the owner was ex CCP, etc. It’s very much not like Xiaomi which is more a Chinese private company (with funding from companies like Qualcomm).
One more reason I’m proud to be an American, where our tech companies have no ties or connections to the government.
Good one xD
Doubt the US government is as evil as the CCP, one party that literally willingly caused massive famines costing millions of deaths.
Say no more fam https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Can’t wait to see where Linux phones are in a few years but I have my doubts. Mostly around the app ecosystem (yes I know, just use the web browser for a lot of them), but hopefully the concept stays alive!
You just activated my trap card!
same with Tick Tock
I mean it’s not like you’d catch a US government official carrying around a Huawei phone either - fair is fair.
Of course they pose a national security risk. Imagine your government officials walking around with devices fully capable of recording bodily activities, location, sound, video, and transmit it to a foreign power, with or without the wearer’s knowledge. 🤯
Then add the ability of third party powers to use Israel’s NSO spying capabilities for these devices.
The moment I could replace these devices with my own home-grown ones, I would. If anything, it’s surprising it took them this long. Maybe they thought they had enough control over Apple.
Imagine your government officials walking around with devices fully capable of recording bodily activities, location, sound, video, and transmit it to a foreign power, with or without the wearer’s knowledge.
They don’t have to imagine it. They are actively DOING it with TikTok! Then there’s the not so small matter of all the spying that Huwaei was doing using their 5G network equipment.
Here’s another one: Have you read the articles about Mozilla reporting what a privacy nightmare today’s cars are? China has banned Teslas from being parked in our around their Government Offices and Military bases. Today’s cars, especially EVs, are absolutely loaded with high end spy tech. Video recording in optical and non-optical wavelengths, audio recording, gps positioning, radar and ultrasound systems, remote control of those systems, remote data access to those systems…
Since China banned Tesla’s cars from being parked in sensitive locations what do you think they are doing with their auto brands such as BYD?
Everyone is spying on each other like mad.
Haven’t read Mozilla’s report but I’m in the field and am fully aware. What I can tell you is that at least some of the Motown manufacturers are very privacy oriented at least for now.
Huawei is an unmitigated disaster. Security analyses of their equipment from some years ago showed hundreds of security holes on a single piece of infrastructure networking equipment. Countless vulnerable copies of OpenSSL, you name it. Even if they didn’t have any backdoors, the equipment was such a Swiss cheese that you could enter it from many of the gaping holes. The only reason we use it is cost, making the moneys for the shareholders.
Buy stock in Huawei, got it.
If the US can do it, so can China. But, of course, both suck (iPhone and Huawei).
Nice move, China. Right then, let’s start drafting the tit-for-tat regulations right away.
iPhones pose a risk to the National Security Agencies’ ability to spy on the citizens
Any US technology has NSA backdoors. I’m surprised it took them this long to realize, since they do the same thing.
I’m sure they’ve known for years, there just wasn’t a lot they could do it about and relations with the US were good enough that it wasn’t a serious problem…until now.
Yes put all their government employees on most likely outdated Android which probably don’t have up to date security patches. Brilliant.
Not for long. Now that HarmonyOS 4 is out they’re pushing HarmonyOS NEXT which has all of the Android libraries removed.
I would bet dollars to donuts that foreign governments have already exploited HarmonyOS 4.
I wouldn’t bet against it but from the CCPs perspective that’s still better than iOS & Android where it’s a near certainty that the NSA has back doors baked into the OS.
I mean… I don’t doubt that any cell phone is.
Apple’s recent reductions on their privacy stance are having consequences.
Huh. Who woulda thunk.
They haven’t reduced their privacy stance, as far as I’m aware. In fact, the only public previous reduction was a concession to China over iCloud storage
China bashing aside how likely is the us engaging in tech espionage of foreign countries? Are there any merit in the statement below? (Serious replies only)
“Measures are believed to be aimed at eliminating perceived national security risks from telecoms devices made by a US company”
China bashing aside how likely is the us engaging in tech espionage of foreign countries?
That’s the new way countries are spying on each other. China and the states are both doing it a lot.
It’s been documented already. I guess the next question is if there’s any reason to think it’s stopped.
Update: I guess not. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/politics/us-spying-allies.html
Not sure what tech espionage means. Espionage - yes they are engaging in it and always have. Everyone is. If it means espionage using modern technology, also yes. Tapping underwater cables, collection of unencrypted data, you name it. Snowden lives in exile because we know about it.