I run a managed service provider (basically corporate I.T.) and we deal with lots of medical & dental companies. We have yet to walk into a place EVEN IF THEY HAD OTHER I.T. SUPPORT BEFORE WE GET THERE that isn’t actively bleeding mass amounts of data to China and have no idea why they are doing so. Some systems are even going as far as to send out screenshots and passwords.
We don’t know why it’s so prevalent in medical and dental, but it’s probably not good.
It’s kind of terrifying how non-private everything is in badly run companies that are more cost-focused than privacy-focused. Even worse, we’ve had some medical and dental offices refuse support because it was too costly (and we’re on the lower-mid end of pricing), but having all their client data stolen was free!
This is why I hesitate to use Chinese-brand electronics, even though some of their offerings are appealing and they are often price competitive. I would rather just have the peace of mind and buy Korean or Taiwanese electronics.
You believe there are not backdoors built into Korean or Taiwanese products?
There is less likelihood of such backdoros than with Chinese products.
What makes you think that? We’ve seen loads of western backdoors exposed, and we know they also engage in supply chain intervention.
People in authoritarian countries have a much higher level of tolerance for intrusive policies. Countries that lack a real judicial system have less safeguards with respect to secret backdoors. Revanchist cultures that focus on national exceptionalism are more likely to develop “blind spots” with respect to government and corporate overreach.
Keep in mind that I’ve lived in multiple countries in North America, Europe and Asia and speak multiple languages; I am not just making stuff up.
You may not be convinced by what I am saying and that’s fine. I am just explaining my reasoning.
The US is an authoritarian police state, with an intelligence sector that has its claws in every industry across the globe. Of course their products are chock full of backdoors as well. And all of the leaks and whistleblowers have confirmed that.
I’ve lived for many years in both russia and the US. As I said earlier, my life experience makes it impossible for me to align with campist rhetoric.
If your life experience taught you to defend fascists, you learned the wrong lessons.
Yeah, I don’t care if China knows what my heartbeat was like
This isn’t just a privacy issue, the CVEs noted there is a way to remotely execute code. So maybe you’re in the hospital, the government sees your name and vitals through their backdoor, search and find on social media that you’ve been saying some things they don’t like, then remotely crash or disable your heart monitor when your vitals start looking funny and the medical staff at the hospital aren’t notified…
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Yeah bro, they’re gonna do so much with the info lmao
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I suppose if you’re using them that often they could do that, but they’d probably just deny your benefits even without the extra data.
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There’s bigger problems than medical monitors collecting data. Like fascism. And I’d rather have the spying monitor than no monitor at all.
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