Western intelligence agencies are warning that Chinese malware on mobile phones could be targeting Taiwanese activists and others who oppose Beijing.
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00:00western intelligence agencies are warning of malicious software and spyware being used
00:07by china what does this look like they might use like a free and some small function small
00:13feature you might need and and make you think that is not harmful as long as you download those kind
00:21of app from your app store and from like android areas you might just allow those kind of malicious
00:28software inside your phone and it seems like it will like monitor you like day after day because
00:34actually even if you didn't like turn off your camera or like your microphone those kind of app
00:40that can still like uh privately record or maybe catch your like snap or voice immediately and and
00:49even when you are sleeping and who is beijing supposedly targeting and why for example um
00:55even like hong kong activists or maybe like activists in muslim community uh from t-back
01:00from xinjiang or some other mongolia some some country they do have the border issues you might
01:06see like those kind of spot where my use uh information your contact your message um between
01:14you and your friend for example like wechat they can definitely use and record and and to see all the
01:21uh information inside your closing chat room what is china doing with the surveillance that it's
01:27gathering china do want to collect your data no matter what data they are who your boyfriend spouses
01:35um connection even colleagues uh your contact between you and some other people that shows like you're
01:42from different community to divide your community and also provide some basic idea for example food
01:49shortage for example uh you're on like um conservative churches community maybe like anti um anti-abortion
01:59or anti anti-lgbtq rights uh those kind of like those kind of like community issue and topic can be used
02:08to attack your political idea also uh make you think about democracy is is chaotic chaotic make you think of
02:16the culture of the government cannot protect you um the western culture cannot protect you
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