Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners.
Among the apparent targets of tools provided by the impacted company, I-Soon: ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have seen significant anti-government protests, such as Hong Kong or the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang in China’s far west.
The dump of scores of documents late last week and subsequent investigation were confirmed by two employees of I-Soon, known as Anxun in Mandarin, which has ties to the powerful Ministry of Public Security. The dump, which analysts consider highly significant even if it does not reveal any especially novel or potent tools, includes hundreds of pages of contracts, marketing presentations, product manuals, and client and employee lists.
Assuming that multiple foreign governments were keeping tabs on you used to be paranoia, now it’s just cynicism.
It’s not cynical it’s realistic.
To the shock of the entire world Im sure.
Why never knew the sky was blue
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I mean fuck china but I don’t think they are spying anymore than the US or any other government
Edit: Lemmy world being lemmy US, I can guarantee that google has more data on me than the CCP
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Idk if we are misunderstanding each other or am I doing something dumb, but that’s what I am trying to say as well, that China and US both are pieces of shit and both deserved to be called pieces of shit, that’s all my original comment said, ig it maybe due to the context that it comes across that I am supporting china, in which case I am at fault probably, my frustration stems from the fact that some people here shit on china but when the US does something like this they come with some lame excuse (which is not the majority here I will accept)
Yes. Americans in general are way too “China bad! Murica good!” to understand such obvious thoughts. Anyone who is concerned with Chinese spying, needs to temper their outrage when confronted with American spying. Specifically the Five Eyes nations and the intelligence sharing and spying that happens.
You can argue that spying is bad or good. Obviously you want your team to know everything and the other team to be in the dark. This only works in very unbalanced ways. When you have actual sovereign superpowers that aren’t the US, you better realize they’re doing what you’re doing.
And then ask yourself who would you rather have all your information? Billy Bob at the NSA who can see and control everything you do in your life in America or Xi Wang in China that doesn’t give a flying crap about anything you do except if you plan to visit China and start protesting…
What’s your social credit score, citizen?
Huh? Idk what you are trying to say but I am not from China
Edit: Have y’all forgotten that google and meta are American?
Those famous branches of a nation’s government, Google and Meta.
The nation of Narnia.
