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No thanks China! (lemmy.today)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I'm European and I definitely feel that way. I don't like American spyware, but I trust the Chinese government much less than I do American corporations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Remind me again who was wiretapping Merkel's cell phone? China right? Oh wait no sorry, it was the USA.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who was caught wiretapping.

Between August and September 2007 Chinese hackers were suspected of using Trojan horse spyware on various government computers, including those of the Chancellory, the Ministry of Economics and Technology, and the Ministry of Education and Research.[180] Germans officials believe Trojan viruses were inserted in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files, and approximately 160 gigabytes of data were siphoned to Canton, Lanzhou and Beijing via South Korea, on instructions from the People's Liberation Army.[181]

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad

It is a very long Wikipedia article (as is anything involving CIA activities abroad, to be sure).

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