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China spying using common car battery monitor?
soldar:
This essay is well worth reading and pondering.
Us vs. Them: Why Our Society and the World Are Becoming Increasingly Divided
https://www.juliakolodko.com/us-vs-them
Summary: whoever we are, it does not matter, we are good, they are bad.
= = = = = =
All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They !
Rudyard Kipling
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_wethey.htm
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: soldar on September 22, 2023, 08:33:47 am ---...Summary: whoever we are, it does not matter, we are good, they are bad. ...
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I observed an interesting phenomenon at IBM in the 90's. The day shift workers tending to blame the evening shift workers and vice versa when something wasn't quite right. Which was the "them and us" phenomena. This was not helped by the questionable leadership of IBM senior management creating an environment of distrust. In fact, they literally put up a wall between us office staff (mostly engineers) and the manufacturing staff. We had access to the manufacturing areas, but manufacturing staff could not access our office areas except for a few selected people.
So it is with countries spying on each other, even so-called allies (eg: the CIA spying on Angela Merkel). The wall exists. Good dialogue and good ethical leadership will help remove it. Some Chinese companies and their government secretly collecting data on foreigners and stealing intellectual property does nothing to create trust. They need a paradigm shift if they are ever going to be trusted.
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