So we know (right?) that the US government put backdoors in lots of parts of the backbone of the US internet they had access to that wasn't public knowledge, and that they have data sharing agreements with 5 eyes countries so that, for example, they can use their backdoors to send information about canadian citizens to canadian spy authorities without triggering various laws that would otherwise make that information illegal to obtain, and get the reverse in return.
Distrusting Google for their cooperation with government spying in no way precludes avoiding or criticizing Riot's software choices due to the risk and known behaviors of China's government.
> Distrusting Google for their cooperation with government spying in no way precludes avoiding or criticizing Riot's software choices due to the risk and known behaviors of China's government.
Right, so you're saying here that Five Eyes' ability to hack infra isn't comparable to CPC's ability to put backdoors in software? I.e. that while you acknowledge that infra might be compromised, in terms of a collection of bits executing on your computer you trust that software generated by a US company isn't compromised (or is less likely or whatever) compared to software generated by a Chinese company?
Canadians are suspected by more Chinese people than Chinese are suspected by all of North America.
And USA is suspected by, well, everyone, right?
But that could just be a matter of publicity goals; of it benefiting China's goals for their citizens to know they are watching, and it not benefiting Western governments the same way.
I think it's natural (not necessarily rational) for people to be more skeptical of the goals of outside nations than of their own. Certainly, other nations with a very different and disliked form of government would engender more suspicion, however irrelevant that aspect may actually be.