BaroqueInMind

I was rhetorically speaking, so if you feel targeted, it’s you projecting some sort of guilt, home slice.

All it would take is for GabeN to die and a corporate takeover for Valve to change their tune. They are a corporation pursuing profit, not some fucking benevolent NGO, so stop idolizing them.

Both of those heavily rely on Wine and especially Proton, which is funded by significant donations from Valve software, so you are arguing a trivial cost versus a subsidized cost.

Technically the OS isn’t free: Valve pays a team of developers to maintain the SteamOS and also donates money to Arch and Ubuntu foundations as well as to the Proton and Wine dev teams as well as contributes code to the linux kernel. All costing them money, that they eat but could easily find a way to charge the end user

Extremely privileged of you to think that one can simply live a routine life thinking they are safe, while immigrants in the US aren’t breaking the law and still getting rounded up into concentration camps.

China doesn’t have laws enshrined in its constitution to protect immigrants like the US does (yet the Executive Branch barely give a fuck about the law), so they (China) can do whatever they fuck they want. Not defending anyone, just illuminating it since I am ignorant af

I like skepticism, it’s healthy. I like it when everyone questions and doubts in order to find the truth. It can go too far sometimes and you get anti-vax morons and flat-earth dipshits, so there’s a level of curiosity that, once it becomes unhealthy or unusual or the answer is clearly out in the open/conspicuously apparent, should be punished.

China blocks newer TLS and forces a TLS downgrade of a version they have decryption capabilities of - https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/the-2021-tls-telemetry-report

More info - https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/en/

More - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167240/chinese-police-get-power-inspect-internet-service-providers

Chinese cryptography law mandates packet inspection and supervison of all foreign telemetry - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11252-2_4
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography_law

If you are truly skeptical of one of the world’s largest cyber threat actors with an enormous economy and large population of cyber security experts is or isnt capable of trivially decrypting TLS, I don’t know how else I can convince you that they are capable.

People posting here don’t realize that CN gov IDs and allows certain traffic to get rerouted through a certain VLAN so they can do DPI and record every packet through a beefy expensive tap device to analyze the telemetry later, and potentially build a case against you. If they so choose. And they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS.

Don’t bring in any tech, don’t access your personal net back home, don’t expect any level of actual privacy or good intentions. Just do your business and keep your digital digital persona minimal while there.

How?