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Jeff S.'s avatar

Interesting Fun Fact---When Western technology companies want to do business in the People's Republic, as a part of the deal, the companies MUST give the Chinese government access to their source code (just ask Bill Gates...when Microsoft entered China, they had to hand it over. Oddly enough, a few months later, the Army Knowledge Online portal was routinely hacked by Chinese sources--AKO was built on Microsoft architecture). Therefore, since Elon builds Teslas in China, there is a reasonably good chance that the Chinese state security service can hack Tesla cars. Think on that the next time you see a Model 3 at a stoplight...

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Hortense's avatar

I remember, after China joined the WTO, reading about how China was forcing companies to provide their trade secrets to their Chinese partners. I could never understand that (don't have the required level of hubris) and thought this will not end well.

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