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  • There is substantiated proof of Cisco and Juniper switches having US government backdoors through the management ports. They also have the capability of decrypting everything that passes through them and mirroring to an external host.

    I cannot say any more other than you will find that the NSA continuously denied all the backdoors that global security researchers were finding and Cisco denied putting them in. You will also find in leaked Snowden documents absolute proof that the NSA was behind it and did implement the backdoors and they do exist and work.

    I at the time being a lowly semiconductor designer with access to unreleased networking gear from the big guys, cannot say anything about what I know those spying piece of shit devices do. But I will say, go look up the Snowden documents. They speak louder than any random on the internet.

    And China has made a stink. It's one reason their great fire wall is setup. It does somewhat prevent citizens from using western tools, but they know they do and really don't care much. What it really is, is a way to monitor everything in and out. All the edge is Chinese hardware, no backdoors for the five eyes. Those prevent the backdoors, that are known or theorized, to be used. So essentially they are backdoored equipment inside a security fence that disallows the backdoor to establish a connection. Bad actors from within could make this bad for China. Or very very tricky phone home algorithms, but you have to be careful how it's implemented in unfriendly territory.

    Most of the other countries just don't give a crap. If the Ivory Coasts data is being spied on by the 5 eyes or China, they don't care. Nobody cares about them either. It's just the sad state of world power. Those that care, have a side.

  • Very true. But nobody cares or believes it. When you start saying that US made hardware like network switches, cryptographic algorithms, telecom radios, etc all have backdoors to the 3 letter agencies in 5 eyes plus the internet distribution over cloudfare or "the cloud" in Google, Amazon, Microsoft, then people just think you're a tin foil hat conspiracist.

    The people are too stupid and ignorant to care enough to demand change. Why did the US lobby so hard to get Huawei off market? Because of course there are backdoors into the Chinese intelligence agencies. JUST LIKE US DEVICES! But nobody seems to make that correlation. China bad, China hardware spying bad, is the only thing they can get in their heads.

    Good to bring it up, but nothing will change. 99.9% of people don't know what DNS or proxiing or caching is let alone Cloudfare. It's just "the internet". Some are aware of some agencies the US and five eyes have, but most don't believe what they actually do and are capable of. The US is the best producer of propaganda in the world. Hollywood is amazing at it, as are US media sources. The FISA bill that just came up for reauthorization and passed had a whole PR campaign about catching terrorists and stopping Russia and China and Hamas. Nobody stopped to think how and why they even have any of that info in the first place and how it's collected.

    Keep being the crazy uncle ranting about government spying because the world needs it.

  • There is even a case where the US used a drone to murder a US citizen abroad, extrajudicially. Apparently those "guaranteed rights" mean nothing when they don't want them to.

    But good luck convincing almost any Americans of this as the propaganda is strong and the populace idiotic.

  • New feeds are biased. Lemmy is not a news feed. There are no non pay for use websites that don't have a bias.

    This lack of reading and thinking comprehension is also a suck on humanity. You, like most Americans, have no idea how to even read things without inserting your own heavily slanted bias.

  • Welcome to Reddit 2.0 I guess.

    I personally HATE having 10 articles all about the same thing posted and reposted. Then reposted again for the next week as if they're new. The anti-Big-D-Democratic posts of this user were not reposted. They brought new stories from places I wouldn't visit and read or have in my biased news feed. Everyone's "news feed" is biased, it learns what you engage with even if you try to be unbiased.

    Banning people who post differing opinions is shitty. It becomes an echo chamber. Today it is Trump and Biden. But

    <insert slippery slope argument here>

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  • Yup, had them lock an account before. Never gave them my info. Had to start a new account and actively work around their fraud protections with fingerprinting. And eventually reconnect. Pain in the butt.

    You have zero recourse and no appeal process. Even uploading an ID doesn't guarantee anything.