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While China is a threat with potential backdoors, you ignore the threat US intelligence agencies presented to China, Russia and the rest of the world. Why is our abuse better than China's or Russia's abuse? Oh, yeah, because we're the US.

Since the dawn of digital communications, US intelligence agencies have backdoored and done the very same stuff that China is now being accused of. So we really need to be very careful here as it is very much like the pot calling the kettle black.

With the attack on 9/11, the US intelligence agencies began gathering telephone call meta-data that has been used extensively to stop numerous terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, that dataset has also been misused for a variety of nefarious purposes as well because, we are all human and when such a resource is available, well, they are bound to get abused.

All of this is not to say that China is not a threat. But that needs to be couched with the fact that all governments are potential threats, including our own government. As a result, security groups need to be on the lookout for ALL threats, not just ones from China.

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