Ventoy is a tool to make a USB with multiple ISOs bootable, letting you select which ISO to use on boot. Another newly-created account claims to be the dev’s friend and translator and has received no contact from the maintainer.

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    I heard people raving about ventoy, i checked it out online, but blobs and chinese maintainer made it seem fishy. Even if a maintainer was legit it only takes CCP thteatening their family to get a backdoor inserted

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      This is ridiculous. You don’t trust “Chinese maintainers” (“even if legit” lol), because the “CCP” might threaten “their family to get a backdoor inserted”.

      Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don’t trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that “the CCP” is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.

      Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.

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        We have chinese police here in Vancouver (edit Non Canadian force), if residents speak badly about CCP these “Police” show up at the door and try to coherce them back to mainland. I’m not regurgitating the articles, my friend living in vancouver had them show up. I’m not trusting blobs.

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          New York, DC, and LA as well. If one doesn’t want a polite knock, one doesn’t speak ill of the CCP.

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              Down voting for 2 reasons:

              1. This article is short on factual information that says what you’re implying.
              2. This is wholly irrelevant to Ventoy.
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                if you search Chinese Police Canada (or USA) there are tons of articles that are way more in depth, and describe encounters, etc.

                I added that link so people don’t think I’m making it up when my friends house is getting door knocked by two CCP police.

                It does not directly relate to Ventoy, it relates to why I would not trust a chinese product as we have first hand witness here in Canada of CCP harassing residents or forcing them back to china. There is that much control, even when they don’t live in China, that if CCP wanted to have widespread spying they would just pick a dev with family in the mainland.

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                  Your phone, computer, TV, and various other electronics in your house were not made in China? You believe that your own country or mine cannot secretly compel backdoors?

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                    I realize that this era makes it difficult, but that is why I would be cautious in projects, like Rustdesk dev was obfuscating the chinese location, and blobs, so I have removed that. My phone runs GrapheneOS so things are sandboxed, my home electronics are either totally blocked from web access, or certain IPs restricted. And of course Canada US would try to compel, but we have more transparency here than CCP shinanigens. I’m just saying, everyone blindy installing Ventoy that has more blobs than source code, and possible mainland connection should not be

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        Read my other reply in this thread you will see why/how CCP oversteps boundaries, and why you don’t trust blob code you can’t verify

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          1. There’s an older comment in this thread that details how you could verify those blobs: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14458323
          2. You very much implied that you shouldn’t trust all people of Chinese descent. I personally very much dislike the CCP, as a government I think they cause an immeasurable amount* of harm. However, what you are suggesting is on the same level of racism as the US government locking up all Japanese-Americans in internment camps during WWII.
          3. Seriously, calm down.
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            Nope just maintainers that I can’t verify their identity, not asians in general.

            We live in a mixed bag of skin colours here, I have no issue with people…just CCP and their infiltration of their officials into Canada… that are harassing citizens and Permanent residents of chinese descent.