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Vibes-based threat modeling, a classic.
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
Who was caught wiretapping.
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).
China does not even spy a hundredth of what USA does. Since Anglos love to quantify everything, it might be a good idea to quantify spying too. 160 GB sounds like nothing to me compared to millions of TBs in Utah datacenters. By your logic, one person who killed one person, and one person who committed a murder of 10000s of people, are equally guilty.
How about I share something from my own country. What I reckon is that only some of my data goes to the US government through Google, Microsoft etc. while the Chinese government controls corporations like tencent much more than the US government controls US corporations. Besides all that, services from Microsoft and Google are much harder to avoid than for example tiktok and Huawei. So the US is getting my data no matter what, I might as well limit how much of it goes to china.
In the US it is the big corporations that control the government.
welcome traveller from an alternate universe where Snowden leaks didn't happen 😂
looks like US propaganda machine is working smoothly in Europe
Looks like there is no concrete basis for threat modelling. Xenophobic biases, everywhere!