How do you not feel embarrassed after typing that edit. The iPhone flair also gives it a special kind of irony. The timing of me finding this post 5 years later right when there’s a discovery of the NSA backdoor in Apple A12-A16 chips is impeccable.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    So the whole fear mongering campaign against Chinese foreign surveillance is straight up a psyop to get people to forget that their own government is watching everything they do literally every second of the day…right!

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, it’s a way to normalise it and justify it. Everything the US actually does, they accuse their enemies of doing worse versions of it. That way, when a scandal breaks, they still look better by comparison.