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Having Americans afraid of Chinese phones and other type of devices should turn your lamp on that probably all embed some hole servicing some secret political and even above political interest.\n\nApplications – The Application layer probably could be compared to a Swiss cheese full of security issues. There are ton of holes depending on programming languages (+versions), application server, database server versions, insecure administrator setups, application developer bugs and craters etc.\n\nBrowser – one of the most used type of applications are the browsers and they are very big weak point for making security impossible. 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