Leaked hacking files show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike
Leaked hacking files show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike
Among the apparent targets of tools provided by the impacted company, I-Soon, are ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have seen significant anti-government protests like Hong Kong or Xinjiang.
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners.
Among the apparent targets of tools provided by the impacted company, I-Soon: ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have seen significant anti-government protests, such as Hong Kong or the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang in China’s far west.
The dump of scores of documents late last week and subsequent investigation were confirmed by two employees of I-Soon, known as Anxun in Mandarin, which has ties to the powerful Ministry of Public Security. The dump, which analysts consider highly significant even if it does not reveal any especially novel or potent tools, includes hundreds of pages of contracts, marketing presentations, product manuals, and client and employee lists.
Assuming that multiple foreign governments were keeping tabs on you used to be paranoia, now it's just cynicism.
It's not cynical it's realistic.
Why never knew the sky was blue
To the shock of the entire world Im sure.
How does someone even find these “dumps”? Github?
Not any more
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There were links here on Lemmy yesterday
Wow I am so shocked!
is completely unshocked by this
I mean fuck china but I don’t think they are spying anymore than the US or any other government
Edit: Lemmy world being lemmy US, I can guarantee that google has more data on me than the CCP
Comments like this are so odd. People (rightfully) get all worked up about surveillance in the West like the US and UK, but then kinda shrug off the same stuff when it's China.
China is no longer weak and isolationist. It's been flexing its muscles around the world, with 102 overseas police stations in 53 countries, including Italy, France, Canada, Britain and the Netherlands for example.
Idk if we are misunderstanding each other or am I doing something dumb, but that’s what I am trying to say as well, that China and US both are pieces of shit and both deserved to be called pieces of shit, that’s all my original comment said, ig it maybe due to the context that it comes across that I am supporting china, in which case I am at fault probably, my frustration stems from the fact that some people here shit on china but when the US does something like this they come with some lame excuse (which is not the majority here I will accept)
And any government can just buy your data from Google etc whenever it wants, no warrants needed. No one has privacy anymore.
‘Nooo, but it’s different when the US does it🤡’ Fuck US, Fuck China, Fuck anyone who doesn’t respect peoples privacy, Fuck people who think/claim/defend that US is any better than China in most circumstances
Yes. Americans in general are way too "China bad! Murica good!" to understand such obvious thoughts. Anyone who is concerned with Chinese spying, needs to temper their outrage when confronted with American spying. Specifically the Five Eyes nations and the intelligence sharing and spying that happens.
You can argue that spying is bad or good. Obviously you want your team to know everything and the other team to be in the dark. This only works in very unbalanced ways. When you have actual sovereign superpowers that aren't the US, you better realize they're doing what you're doing.
And then ask yourself who would you rather have all your information? Billy Bob at the NSA who can see and control everything you do in your life in America or Xi Wang in China that doesn't give a flying crap about anything you do except if you plan to visit China and start protesting...
What's your social credit score, citizen?
My guess is that Google has more data on you, but as soon as you badmouth the CCP or talk about Tienanmen square, the proportion flips dramatically.
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