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Re:Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent by baybal2 on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:35AM (#19521521)
> Yes, stealing individual secrets is best done with old school tradecraft. Spies in suits, photos of scandals with dominatrixes.

Why would anybody need to do more than steal individual secrets they've been told to recon?

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Re:Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent by huffmsa on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:44AM (#19521591)
Because you can't build a homosexual scoring model for the social credit system by learning that one person is secretly gay.

You can build that model if you have access to the data of 20 million people.

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