“We’ve done nothing to prevent it and we are absolutely stunned that it happened”

Anyone else remember when China threw a hissy fit about western countries prohibiting Huawei from competing for the contracts for the mobile phone system backend?

What the article DOESN’T say: The way they accessed these telecom networks was through a backdoor INSTALLED by US Intelligence agencies.

This is the reason why you don’t fucking put backdoors in your code/software/hardware. Security advocates consistently say “don’t fucking do that because it’ll be discovered and exploited by bad actors”…and yet…