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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor

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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (07 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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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.

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      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.

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        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…

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

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

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      The FBI is the nefarious party lol

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        Waco intensifies

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    China USA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else

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      If the door exists, then it can be opened

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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?

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        Oh hey, I found a random 8 year old video.

        Random…

        https://youtu.be/VPBH1eW28mo

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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”

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      cause anyone who knows of it can use it

      …and the ones who don’t know of it will one day become the ones who know

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

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      Nervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.

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

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    nice, that’ll tech them.

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