And in reverse, you think Palentir has a transparent business model to trust with your data? I don't get why people find china more suspect than most of these billionaire led monopolies buying politicians and laws and spout paranoid gibberish about Christianity and anti Christ etc.
Both might be fundamentally evil or being, but they aren't different in danger based solely on how white they are.
And yes an American company in cahoots with the government having the ability to snoop on traffic and turn entire networks off, while bad, is nowhere near as bad as a Chinese one having the exact same capability.
Their hypothetical does have weight, though. Damn near every desktop/laptop computer does have "a hidden little core running a hidden little OS" nowadays, after all.[0]
Obviously this particular one isn't in non-Intel equipment, but...
Devices from companies under direct or implicit CCP control should indeed be considered suspect until proven otherwise. Not just them, but them much more than local ones.
