• Singletona082@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    ‘Chineese startup nobody has heard of.’

    …am… I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like… they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?

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      7 days ago

      At this point, yeah, a bit. But it is a common racism to have right now, and the first step on the path to getting rid of it is knowing you have it.

      Plus, the headline is really leading in that direction too, the article itself makes it pretty clear that it is a real, reputable product. Their wording in the headline is technically correct, they specifically call it a company “you’ve likely never encountered” rather than “noone has heard of”, the company has already been at the forefront before and announced that they would be again in 2025, this is fulfilling that promise.

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        6 days ago

        China has caught putting harware level vulnerabilities for decades now.

        So there’s probably backdoors in any Chinese hardware by now. But also in any western hardware.

        It’s just about who you want to send your data to.

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      6 days ago

      startup nobody has heard of

      There, now that sentence isn’t racist because that sounds like a scam without any additional details.

      But it is a startup you’ve probably never encountered, which is saying more about them not being known outside of their home country which is a bit different.

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      6 days ago

      No because Chinese isn’t a race its a nationality. If you used one of the races there like Han The predominate race there. than yes it would be racist. The Han are in fact often refereed to has the real Chinese. But china is made up of many races not just the one.