[HN Gopher] Oh no, I betrayed America
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       Oh no, I betrayed America
        
       Author : anigbrowl
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-07 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | Author bought a Huawei watch and found it to be an excellent
       | replacement for his Apple watch.
       | 
       | That said, most the article concerns the below bit and I tend to
       | agree with it.                   The China challenge is much
       | bigger than alarmists understand.         It's not just about
       | espionage or market share.          It's about the United States
       | and the West more broadly losing         preeminence and Chinese
       | firms becoming reliable parts of life.
       | 
       | From a security standpoint: When my data lands in the hands of
       | Chinese interests and USA entities, only the latter is leveraging
       | it against me. In the stack of data risks to be mitigated, China
       | is at the bottom and everyone tied to the US is at the top.
        
         | RandomBacon wrote:
         | > From a security standpoint: When my data lands in the hands
         | of Chinese interests and USA entities, only the latter is
         | leveraging it against me. In the stack of data risks to be
         | mitigated, China is at the bottom and everyone tied to the US
         | is at the top.
         | 
         | I hope you don't work for a company or know anyone who works
         | for a company that China might want to influence, steal secrets
         | from, sabotage, etc; otherwise your information or information
         | that you have about other people could be used against you,
         | people you know, your company, your interests, etc.
         | 
         | Foreign intelligence doesn't always go after people in
         | "important" jobs, they sometimes go after janitors or other
         | people who have _access_ to either facilities or _people_.
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | @dang suggest changing the submission to use the article's less
       | clickbaity subtitle: "My journey to a Huawei watch"
        
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