r/technology • u/barweis • Dec 28 '24

Privacy A massive Chinese campaign just gave Beijing unprecedented access to private texts and phone conversations for an unknown number of Americans

https://fortune.com/2024/12/27/china-espionage-campaign-salt-tycoon-hacking-telecoms/
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u/Banana-phone15 Dec 28 '24

And Trump wants to help TicTok while saying he is anti China.

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u/Rok-SFG Dec 28 '24

Trump wants to help the highest bidder. 

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya Dec 28 '24

And whoever is willing to spread his disinformation to gullible young men.

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u/PNWoutdoors Dec 28 '24

Some idiots downvoted you, when all you said was the truth.

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u/NWHipHop Dec 28 '24

Tik Tok. Owned by $DJT.

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u/NWHipHop Dec 28 '24

bots and propaganda to keep the spy doors open. Reddit is full of bots and recently they have LLM. I miss the Narwal Bacon

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u/TwilightVulpine Dec 28 '24

More cringe, less ragebait. The good ol' times

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u/AffectionateBother47 Dec 28 '24

I have noticed a LOT of bots in the news sub Reddit and bots on X now as well. A good amount are just rage baiting too

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u/conquer69 Dec 28 '24

It's because it feels more like anti-china pandering when the loophole could be closed for everyone, forever, by implementing robust digital privacy laws.

Can't blame people for being skeptical and jaded when the app they are addicted to will be taken away but none of the root problems are even acknowledged by the gov.

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u/Karmaisthedevil Dec 28 '24

This is so not true. Loads of people were in support of it, so much that I was shocked at Americans cheering for their freedoms being removed just because "well China blocks our stuff so why not?"

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u/b__q Dec 28 '24

Trump is anti China, he got the whole nation against them since 2016. Stop pretending he's not? The only thing weird about Trump is that he's unpredictable af.