[Porsche-O-Phile]

They can understand us better to develop new products (like TikTok) that Americans will gladly let into their homes (particularly if they’re riddled with spyware / malware) and / or that greedy American corporations (like Microsoft) will want to pay king’s ransom for if / when they’re called out for being a threat.

How hard would it be for the Chinese or anyone else to start gradually ratcheting up the level of threat once they’ve gotten their foot in the door? Automated building control systems, critical infrastructure / utility controls, eventually government... Anything on a network is vulnerable once one node is compromised. We’ve seen that before. You need to completely eliminate the threat to have no risk. Sure it may seem like “benign” spyware (is there such a thing?) but once it has a foothold and can infiltrate things who knows what it might pave the way for later.

This is a new kind of war.