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Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails
- talldayo 2y agoSecond worst hack. The worst one was when the FBI and NSA worked together to install the backdoors that China uses today, and then exploited them for warrentless surveillance for years without any significant criticism.
- leopoldj 2y agoThese "backdoors" are for court authorized wiretapping (The Communications Act of 1934). This is not some kind of a dark conspiracy. Our government argues that wiretapping is an essential tool for law enforcement. [1] The NSA does have a program to intercept traffic [2]. But that's not what got hacked here. I do blame CISA and NSA though for not protecting the system well enough. [1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/litigation_news/29-1-history-and-law-of-wiretapping.pdf https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/lit... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
- gramie 2y agoThe system could never be protected well enough. It is flawed by design, and now (or however long it has been) those flaws have been exploited by others.
- foxyv 2y agoGee, if only someone had warned them all this time! (About backdoors that is)
- itishappy 2y agoHere's some official sources: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-fbi-and-cisa-peoples-republic-china-prc-targeting-commercial-telecommunications https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-fbi-an... https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-nsa-fbi-and-international-partners-publish-guide-protecting-communications-infrastructure https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-nsa-fbi-and-inter... https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/enhanced-visibility-and-hardening-guidance-communications-infrastructure https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/enhanced-visi...
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- wizzard0 2y agoturns out the backdoor is a door after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯