I’m not suggesting giving up but rather trying to be being realistic about adversaries’ potential capabilities as well as the efficacy of the many countermeasures available.
There are myriad ways to decrease the chances of having malware in the first place (many of which I think are very worthwhile!) but none of them are a complete guarantee, so, when the confidentiality of a given conversation is truly paramount it is sometimes better to avoid having it in the presence of recording/storing/network-capable devices at all.
Our entire lives are on wechat already. The US government freaking out about it means it’s secure. From the NSA, that is. It’s probably better than Signal at this point.
The CPC don’t care about individual Americans who don’t speak Chinese and who don’t talk to Chinese people.
Everyone’s entire life is on Wechat. It started life as an add your friends and send photos and texts app but now it rules your life. 100% your whole chat log is archived and analyzed by AI. I only ever worked for folding money so despite everything in their records they can’t prove I ever took money. I know a man who got deported because he took mobile payments. Another I heard about got busted because he stupidly marked his workplace as “work” on his map app and took a Didi there every day. When he said he was legal the cops held up his phone and said, why’s this say it’s your work?
I tried adding APKs and my Xiaomi 15 auto-blocked them on security grounds. I was able to disable it and install them but at the bar there’s a Huawei tablet I cannot get to play MP3s. Streaming only, which sucks.
I’m not suggesting giving up but rather trying to be being realistic about adversaries’ potential capabilities as well as the efficacy of the many countermeasures available.
There are myriad ways to decrease the chances of having malware in the first place (many of which I think are very worthwhile!) but none of them are a complete guarantee, so, when the confidentiality of a given conversation is truly paramount it is sometimes better to avoid having it in the presence of recording/storing/network-capable devices at all.
Our entire lives are on wechat already. The US government freaking out about it means it’s secure. From the NSA, that is. It’s probably better than Signal at this point. The CPC don’t care about individual Americans who don’t speak Chinese and who don’t talk to Chinese people.
Start using GOS and foss apps
Everyone’s entire life is on Wechat. It started life as an add your friends and send photos and texts app but now it rules your life. 100% your whole chat log is archived and analyzed by AI. I only ever worked for folding money so despite everything in their records they can’t prove I ever took money. I know a man who got deported because he took mobile payments. Another I heard about got busted because he stupidly marked his workplace as “work” on his map app and took a Didi there every day. When he said he was legal the cops held up his phone and said, why’s this say it’s your work? I tried adding APKs and my Xiaomi 15 auto-blocked them on security grounds. I was able to disable it and install them but at the bar there’s a Huawei tablet I cannot get to play MP3s. Streaming only, which sucks.