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China is good though? At least that ensures they aren’t a CIA operation.

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Not really. At this point, you’re having to pick between two surveillance states.

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or neither, when cloosing open source tools worth their salt. in more and more fields such tools appear, fortunately

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China bans encryption and doesn’t allow you to use anything to thwart surveillance. I can’t say I want that in a remote access tool.

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China bans encryption

Most confidently wrong statement I have read all year.

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Wait until people find out america bans certain cryptographic things to help them out.

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Of course China uses encryption. So an obtuse, direct reading of that statement allows you, correctly, to say the commenter is wrong.

But what the commenter probably meant was “China bans the use of encryption that prevents the Chinese state from reading what is being exchanged” and that is confidently right. I’ve operated teams in China where we had a secret category 1 incident when it was discovered a couple of our devs had set up a VPN between a Chinese and a western service that didn’t go through the official Chinese-state controlled VPN services.

They absolutely do not want data they cannot read.

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in my book they are more of a risk than the USA. The USA already has political influence, for china to do it they need to use more extreme methods, like infiltrating your computer and use it and perhaps you as their tools

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