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 @7ea6f088 Do you know why China is hating on Apple right now?  It's full of left-wingnuts.
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Probably got something to do with „backdoors“, not the Obama one,  Apple would refuse to give the CCP access to phones they sold to tshinees shitizen.

#totalsurveillance 
 @19cbfccb 👍 😆 Obama. I'm sure you are right. I just read the headlines on this story. I do think there are several layers. The layer that China wants to publicize is a failure of US Sanction. I;m going to start paying better attention. @203536d6 
 same thing happened several years ago with ends reversed.  Huawei phones were banned in the USA.  for no reason 
 @203536d6 @19cbfccb I would have to look it up, but off the top of my head. The US put sanctions on China preventing them from getting the 7mm (?) chip form TSMC or something like that. Apparently, China, in rapid surprising rate created their own 7mm chip and put in a new Huawei Phone. Now Huawei is competing with Apple on a level playing field. Something like that 
 @7ea6f088 checks out @203536d6 @19cbfccb https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/06/huawei-mate-60-pro-mobile-phone-china-dodges-5g-chip-embargo 
 @d6a30e9c @203536d6 @19cbfccb Very nice, and all in a neat little package. Thanks. I'm going to bookmark this👍 
 @7ea6f088 @d6a30e9c @203536d6 @19cbfccb 
Good find

There was another high risk ImageIO code execution vulnerability on iOS and other products too. These devices are a security minefield.