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In that sense, it might actually be "safer" for an individual American to use a Chinese phone. It may be backdoored, but at least the PLA isn't going to share your vacation pics with the DEA, but the NSA might.



Exactly why I use Russian services like Yandex mail. Russia can read it all they want but they'll never give it to the U.S.



If you're an American and you use services outside of the US, you are in fact enabling - entirely legally - the NSA to do dramatically more aggressive things to target your information / data / email.


But... they were already doing it.. And no signs of stopping..


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That crosses into personal/national attack and is not ok here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


It's my first time getting flagged but how is claiming that a Russian resident (national or permanent or otherwise) preferring to use Yandex mail a national/personal attack in any way?


I interpreted it through the filter of the current discourse re trolls, bots, manipulation, meddling, and collusion. If you didn't mean to insinuate about any of that, I'm sorry for misreading you!

I wasn't the only one, though (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381477). It's sad, but if a comment doesn't include enough information to rule out the most inflammatory interpretations, that's where readers will go.


Ah, fair enough. I didn't mean it that way but will be more mindful next time. Thanks, Daniel.


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