Last week, word spread around the world that Huawei and Honor would spy on their users. Cool, warnings are important, especially if they turn out to be true. But even if that… so what?
Let the first without fault throw a stone
This biblical phrase is recalled more than ever today. I cannot resist the impression that Huawei and Honor have been hit the most recently because … this is currently the result of the geopolitical situation in the world.
On the one hand, President Trump is declaring a tariff war on China and all its products, trying to make typically American brands more important. The same is happening in Europe. And yet Huawei and Honor are not the only producers from China. After all, Xiaomi or Oppo also come from there, and they are not exposed to such attacks. Why? Because there is still a long way to pick up the priority palms.
The producer of the Mate and P series gets the hardest, because every producer in the world dreams of such growth. I remember how a few years ago, being an LG Electronics employee, we approached the first steps of this manufacturer on the telephone market with undisguised mockery. See what they have achieved in just a few years! They pushed such veterans as LG, HTC, Sony, Nokia and even Apple to further places. It’s impressive.
It makes the impression the more advanced their products are. Even today I am deeply rooted in the Samsung system, but looking at the latest Chinese designs, I am very hesitant to change the colors. New designs arouse desire, envy, are stylish and refined down to the smallest detail. For this – after all – faster updates than the Koreans. So what more could you want?
Huawei today is a threat to the old order. We saw a similar situation only a few years ago, when the Finns and their Nokia were losing their pedestal. At that time, people tried to play the competition in a similar way – sometimes by trying to innovate, sometimes by attacking it badly by washing the dirt in public. And for all those who want to throw this stone anyway, I have one sad piece of information.
Everyone is spying!
And more importantly – with our own consent. Despite the implementation of mechanisms, screens full of approvals and permits or even the entire permission manager – we blindly click “next, next”. How many of you have disabled any permissions for any app on your phone despite being prompted? Who among you took away the microphone permission for Facebook, Instagram, Google or the “farting button”? I think there is a definite minority of those who care about privacy.
First of all, people don’t see anything wrong with it. Second – they think that if they turn off the microphone, the application will stop working properly. Third – it’s similar to reading the licenses in games when installing them. We click thoughtlessly “next, next” without even reading the first paragraph. Meanwhile, Google processes millions of data about us, Microsoft records our every move in Windows, and Facebook sells our data to Cambridge Analytics, and nobody does it on their own. And yet each of these corporations gives you entire settings panels. It is enough to want to enter them and tick off what we don’t like.
We don’t do anything about it because we’re lazy as humans. Reading dies and reading comprehension scrubs the bottom at all. We don’t care about our safety at all. The most popular password in the world is still “12345” and we use this password in hundreds of services. We do not use the encryption options built into the phone as standard. We do not disable the aforementioned permissions or tracking. What for? Someone think for us.
And then panic and cry that someone has not thought for me. I’m sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
