I’ve read that DJI drones periodically send an encrypted data-payload to China, of the sites they’ve been, & what their camera has seen, as 1 little example.
I’ve read that chips whose implimentation was completed in China had extra logic added into them, to backdoor them, so that the computers they were put into ( the were networking chips ) could be entered by whomever had the backdoor key.
IF you have China make your infrastructure, and China declared last-century that “the destruction of the West is the midwife of Chinese dominion”, THEN you are handing the CCP the keys to your empire.
Modi, in India, has “bet the farm” that Russia will fight with it, provisioning India with military-means, to fight China … but Russia’s now an economic-vassal-state of China, so that can’t even be possible … which means that India has now bet its life on … nothing.
Delusion, including self-delusion, isn’t strategy.
Don’t think it goes only 1-way, though:
Do all the cars in Canada have remote-kill-switches which their manufacturers can activate? TTBOMK, yes, they do.
Apparently collection-agencies & banks use these, sometimes… & the police want the complete access to the same kill-switches…
Diebold voting-machines which were involved in some absurdly-obvious vote-manipulation, complete with coded-in back-doors, a few years ago, are another example: US company, helping highjack US elections.
There is good reason why security-geeks prefer Abloy physical-discs locks to electronic “locks”, where security is required: disc-key locks are not “bumpable”, & they have no back-doors or battery-for-security bullshit.
The brainwashed-by-propaganda just invest in the “security” that is pushed on them, endlessly, removing all alternative from the market.
That many Ukrainians still rely on Telegram, a Russian operation, for their “secret” sharing, is proof of non-viability of entire-populations of humankind.
Platforms are predators/parasites, & that includes hardware as well as software.
The world isn’t operating for humankind’s benefit: humankind is corporate-narcissism-machiavellianism-psychopathy’s prey.
Same as humankind is oligarchy’s prey, same as humankind was monarchy’s prey.
Ever since agriculture put-in-place a stable feudalism/class-system, then it’s been the same polarization-trying-to-extinguish-all-alternatives ( like there being any middle-class who has self-determination ), everywhere.
There’s a profoundly important book by Thom Hartmann, called “Screwed”, whose beginning ( the only part I’ve read ) SHOWS how national-economic-strength ONLY exists when the majority of the population is economically-autonomous ( ie a strong middle-class ), and FINALLY I understood economics, because all the “economics” stuff I’d read, until that, contradicted something fundamental…
it isn’t economic strength, when the majority are crushed-prey!
That the majority of the population need to be doing-well for the national economy to be doing-well,
is completely contradictory to the “so long as the top stocks are doing well, & the wealthy are doing well, THEN the country’s thriving” gaslighting, of normal “economics”.
Anyways, cynicism is a more-useful, more survival-oriented default, nowadays, evidence shows…
https://cdml.com/dangers-of-chinese-made-smart-devices/
https://semiengineering.com/chip-backdoors-assessing-the-threat/
The BIG problem, is that it COST$$ to even discover if one’s chips got trojan’d in Chinese manufacture, & if one has to choose between profit vs security, profit nearly-always wins, in moneyarchy.
So, it only “becomes a problem” when it’s discovered by someone, out in the wild.
And THAT means that we’ve globally rejected “prevention is cheaper than cure” paradigm, opting-instead for “we can’t afford to prevent, so if a cure is needed, our magical-Entitlement-power will save us, of course”, which is relying-on-bogus-belief, instead of relying-on-integrity.
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The real lesson from the article, is:
“that which doesn’t hit one sharply-enough to kill one, IF one is relentlessly adapting, THEN it makes one stronger.”
Which is exactly why our sanctioning of Russian operations & oligarchs was sooo ineffective: we waited ages before doing it, did it layer-by-layer, & gave them warnings & time-to-adapt, to mitigate the effect of our action.
Sorry I can’t remember which journalism it was that pointed all that out, but it wasn’t my insight, it was someone else’s.
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