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Vigilance around binaries is a good thing anyway.

I hope though that this does not damage relations with the Chinese community, as singling them out without good cause is unjust.



>without good cause

China has been well known to MITM traffic. No one should be offended by pointing this out.


Yeah, and injecting Javascript malware. I haven't heard of them MITMing HTTPS though.


http://ncjolt.org/googles-distrust-of-chinese-digital-certif...

CNNIC was the root of trust for a breach involving false certificates for gmail. They claim it was an accident. It might have been. It might not have been.




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