• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It was the right move, but this needs to be expanded. Assume there are state actors from all of the major countries installing backdoors.

    The digital war front will be getting hit from all sides. We need extreme paranoia to protect all of the innocent bystanders. Don’t assume even your own country is trustworthy in this.

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      9 days ago

      Don’t assume even your own country is trustworthy in this.

      My country is one of the world leaders in mass spying software development and even gave themselves the right to basically do deep packet inspections on everything going through it a long time ago, so…

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        9 days ago

        I’m pretty certain my country banned Kaspersky because they kept outing western backdoors and malware. And I would bet my life that Windows has supported free use government backdoors since at least Windows 10.