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it was FBI insistence of backdoors on telecomms infrastructure - in order to spy to US citizens - which created the vulnerability in the first place.
by hunglee2 2y ago
it was FBI insistence of backdoors on telecomms infrastructure - in order to spy to US citizens - which created the vulnerability in the first place.
- hilbert42 2y agoThey would have definitely known this beforehand. This implies it was more important to spy on US citizens than to worry about attacks from foreign governments and cyber criminals. Quite bizarre really.
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- IronWolve 2y agoThe backdoors are law and built into many points of the internet, starlink and all major telecoms and ISP's have to support it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/lawful-intercept/lawful-intercept-faq.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/lawf...
- LinuxBender 2y agoAlso remote management cards on servers. That started around 2010 or sooner.
- salawat 2y agoThe problem is the law requiring the backdoor. If you build a door, people are going to figure out how to use it. Anyone could have told you this is an inevitable outcome. Countless, in fact, did, and it was ignored. Reap the God blessed whirlwind at this point I guess.
- talldayo 2y agoBut surely there was never any well-known whistleblower who had to seek political asylum after revealing a decades-spanning underground surveillance program deliberately hidden from American citizens to prevent distrust and outcry against the compliant businesses that cooperated with warrantless surveillance.