I don’t think gardeners, builders, farmers, or waiters have anything to fear. If your company is targeting locals and not doing any R&D, most data they can extract through espionage is useless. It’s not entirely black-and-white.
They’ve never been caught abusing their software for espionage, it’s always their business people or the engineers they send over for meetings, with maybe a few planted employees, and possibly co-conspirators in universities and other Chinese institutions. They’ll also been caught being rather hacker-friendly, but no direct ties have been proven just yet.
Their people cannot be trusted and their software developers are either malicious or dangerously incompetent. Neither is proof of any backdoor, but both are good reasons to avoid them.
They certainly have little interest in you if you’re a waiter at some shitty restaurant, sure. But do you really think they don’t target the agricultural, construction or food industries and the technologies they may be developing?
Your average farmer isn’t developing any new crops, your average builder isn’t designing new construction mechanisms, and your average restaurant isn’t developing a new way to cook food. There are specific R&D centers for all that stuff. At best, the end users of that technology get to beta-test the functionality.
There are exception to everything, but farmers wouldn’t be remortgaging their homes for drones and millimeter-precision GPS systems if they could just build that tech themselves.
I don’t think gardeners, builders, farmers, or waiters have anything to fear. If your company is targeting locals and not doing any R&D, most data they can extract through espionage is useless. It’s not entirely black-and-white.
They’ve never been caught abusing their software for espionage, it’s always their business people or the engineers they send over for meetings, with maybe a few planted employees, and possibly co-conspirators in universities and other Chinese institutions. They’ll also been caught being rather hacker-friendly, but no direct ties have been proven just yet.
Their people cannot be trusted and their software developers are either malicious or dangerously incompetent. Neither is proof of any backdoor, but both are good reasons to avoid them.
They certainly have little interest in you if you’re a waiter at some shitty restaurant, sure. But do you really think they don’t target the agricultural, construction or food industries and the technologies they may be developing?
Your average farmer isn’t developing any new crops, your average builder isn’t designing new construction mechanisms, and your average restaurant isn’t developing a new way to cook food. There are specific R&D centers for all that stuff. At best, the end users of that technology get to beta-test the functionality.
There are exception to everything, but farmers wouldn’t be remortgaging their homes for drones and millimeter-precision GPS systems if they could just build that tech themselves.
I’m talking about the industry, not the individual.