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On 28/12/16 13:45, Richard Bos wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> 
>> The Chinese government is not interested in monitoring the sort of
>> people that buy these cards,
> 
> *Shakes head even more sadly*
> 

Do you even know who typically buys these cards, and what they do with
them?  Anyone doing something serious - that could conceivably be of
interest to the Chinese authorities - is likely to put a Linux
distribution on them themselves.  And a fair proportion of people buying
these sorts of cards are geeks who would have a good chance of spotting
spyware.  So that would mean putting spyware on the cards would be high
risk, have low chance of working, and provide very little data of
interest at best.  Do you think the Chinese government really cares how
often Jacob tests his compiler on the card?

In comparison, it is a relatively simple matter to put backdoors and
spyware on cheap Chinese mobiles, with a potential for providing a lot
of useful spy data or making a zombie device army.  The same goes for
things like home routers.  So feel free to be paranoid about that sort
of thing.  (Though to be fair, you should be equally paranoid about the
USA and the UK authorities - and of course good old fashioned
incompetence and security holes all round.)

So Jacob is perfectly correct that his data would be more likely to be
safe and secure on such a board than on a phone.

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Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-27 23:44 +0100
  Re: Pine 64 raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-27 22:54 +0000
    Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 00:41 +0100
      Re: Pine 64 raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-28 12:14 +0000
    Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-28 13:39 +0100
      Re: Pine 64 raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-28 12:45 +0000
        Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-28 14:02 +0100
          Re: Pine 64 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-28 10:11 -0800
            Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-28 10:50 -0800
            Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 22:55 +0100
              Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-29 12:21 +0100
                Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-29 21:38 +0100
                Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-30 10:10 +0100
            Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-28 21:53 +0100
            Re: Pine 64 raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-28 19:54 +0000
  Re: Pine 64 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-12-27 18:03 -0500
    Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 00:36 +0100
      Re: Pine 64 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-12-27 18:44 -0500
        Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 00:54 +0100
  Re: Pine 64 Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-28 11:27 +0100
    Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 12:10 +0100
      Re: Pine 64 Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-28 12:59 +0100
  Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-28 10:10 -0800
    Re: Pine 64 supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-29 08:30 -0800
    Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-29 13:22 +0100
      Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-29 07:47 -0800
        Re: Pine 64 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-29 17:03 +0000
      Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-29 04:50 -0800
        Re: Pine 64 Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2016-12-29 21:25 +0800
      Re: Pine 64 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-29 09:28 -0800
      Re: Pine 64 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-29 14:22 +0000
    Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-29 13:28 +0100
    Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-28 14:12 -0800
      Re: Pine 64 BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-28 22:23 +0000
      Re: Pine 64 Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 18:43 +0000
    Re: Pine 64 David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-28 21:59 +0100
    Re: Pine 64 jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-12-28 23:43 +0100
    Re: Pine 64 jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2016-12-28 22:56 +0000
      Re: Pine 64 Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-28 16:00 -0800
        Re: A programming language called 'B64' Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-30 16:08 +0100

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