• @[email protected]
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    China USA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      53 hours ago

      And this is why the NSA is supposed to close exploits rather than harvest them for surveillance.

      This is why surveillance backdoors are always bad, and you can’t math around that.

    • sunzu2
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      US did not need to hack, they just said they need the key… How did china get these keys?

      Are our glowies selling state secrets now?

  • @[email protected]
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    267 hours ago

    Article author struggles with clean links

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack btw

    The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,

    That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.

    and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:

    “Don’t worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?”

    Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD “Secure Processor”, and ARM “TrustZone”:

  • @chronicledmonocle
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    Wow. It’s almost like we’ve been warning for years that putting backdoors into software, systems, and encryption would allow nefarious parties to exploit them.

    • @gaiussabinus
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      10410 hours ago

      Think about the children <clutches pearls>. It will make it easier for police to access instead of <checks notes> doing actual police work and getting a warrant.

      • @Lennny
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        Sorry, I only think of children during school shootings, it’s easier that way.

      • @[email protected]
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        4010 hours ago

        Well yeah but then they’d have to expand the hiring pool beyond the dumbest jock you knew in high school and those people tend to balk at doing fascism so…

        • DominusOfMegadeus
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          2010 hours ago

          Hey, be fair! They also hire the three bullies who hung out by the bleachers smoking cigarettes.

    • @BMTea
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      The FBI is the nefarious party lol

  • Th4tGuyII
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    What?? But the FBI called dibs on that backdoor! /s

    It’s almost like putting backdoors into software as a whole is a bad idea cause anyone who knows of it can use it, not just “tHe GoOd GuYs”

  • @[email protected]
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    489 hours ago

    This article is getting saved, for the next time some idiot proposes ‘lawful backdoors’, which will inevitably happen.

  • @NegativeLookBehind
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    Omg the back doors work for anyone who can gain access to them??? Shocked-pikachu.jpg

    • @horse_battery_staple
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      Only Apple can use that data for profit! Now the Alphabet agencies just buy that data from brokers… I just realized how funny the parent company to Google name change is.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 hours ago

        I just realized how funny the parent company to Google name change is.

        Thank you for this sentence, I thought you were talking about Google, YouTube, etc at first

        • Konala Koala
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          13 hours ago

          At least they were not talking about Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. like someone is trying to screw up the Fediverse.

    • sunzu2
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      That was a psyop my man

      Got normies super comfortable ;)

  • @aluminium
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    169 hours ago

    Can’t buy Huawei Networking gear, if we get hacked it has the be through our own backdoor.

  • @Korkki
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    110 hours ago

    nice, that’ll tech them.