Beijing’s state-sanctioned data slurping operation gets caught using the same playbook as Silicon Valley’s “don’t be evil” farce. Yawn. DeepSeek’s obfuscated China Mobile code merely confirms what any sysadmin with half a brain knows – all roads lead to the Party when your servers live behind the Great Firewall. Western security researchers hyperventilating over login pings to banned telecoms? Tell that to AWS’s shadow contracts with Langley.

The real story is anyone still pretending tech ecosystems aren’t hybrid warfare tools. “Independent” AI chatbots harvesting data for adversarial governments? We invented that with Cambridge Analytica’s Brexit/Optics raids. Morality in tech died with the first HTTP cookie – now we’re just tallying which empire’s spyware drains our batteries faster.