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To: MadLibDisease

RE: Our military is prohibited from using ZTE phones because yes, the Chinese placed chips used to spy in them

Has this actually been proven through testing?

4 posted on 08/09/2019 7:08:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)

[Has this actually been proven through testing?]

IMHO, it’s not so much the chips - although that’s one avenue of entry - as what happens when it phones home to a server in China to do a firmware update. Basically, you have to trust the manufacturer not to include malware/spyware in that update. With Chinese companies, who knows? I’m not particularly enamored of Apple products but that is one area (along with other non-Chinese Android phone makers) where they have a leg up over any phone manufacturer with corporate headquarters in China - the Chinese government can’t toss the CEO in prison for not letting it insert malware into the company’s firmware updates.

6 posted on 08/09/2019 7:27:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)

8 posted on 08/09/2019 7:31:16 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)

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