Summary
A ninth U.S. telecom firm has been hacked in the Chinese espionage campaign “Salt Typhoon,” which gave Beijing access to private texts and calls of Americans, including senior government officials.
The Biden administration confirmed the breach after issuing guidance to detect Chinese hackers.
Officials call for mandatory cybersecurity regulations, as voluntary measures are deemed insufficient.
The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.
China denies involvement.
The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.
Right. I’ll start holding my breath now.
It’ll make the next few years and everything after that much easier
Remember when a bunch of hardware all across the world was discovered to have Chinese surveillance embedded in them and the US government told everyone and most of the corps shrugged?
Because that ‘chinese surveillance’ wasn’t any different from the NSA backdoors. Exactly what this group exploits, incidentally.
Oh, no worries, Congress approved a $3 billion project this month that will come out of our taxes to pay the telecoms to do what they should have done in a span of over a decade. (Still remember the Huawei cell radios in my lab and going “wtf m8, we make these ourselves?!⁄¿”) The poor suffering telecoms can’t pay for it themselves, that’s just too much work. They’re welfare removed.
A tale as old as time, just like when those same goddamn telecoms took taxpayer money to modernize their shit and they simply didn’t instead and went with stock buybacks and the like.
Fucking Verizon got paid a shit ton of money, I’m not even going to look up how much, to run fiber to every community of any decent size. In my state they did, right up until they hit the city. Running fiber in a developed area is crazy expensive compared to running it through rural areas. So they just took all the government money and said they did what they asked for. It took over ten years for a local company to get fiber to my neighborhood, and I’m right beside downtown in the biggest city in the state! To be fair it’s not a big city.
The Bloomberg story? Last I saw it created quite a stir, companies checked their hardware, the only proof of the compromised hardware was that one Bloomberg-story, Bloomberg was unable to produce any more proof, and no one found any proof either.
Which one was SolarWind?
Now charge western secret service heads with treason and Marie Antoinette them. Because everyone told them this would happen.
Secret Service are presidential bodyguards, not corporate cybersecurity
The Secret Service actually does a lot more, but it’s never really reported about. They investigate financial and cybercrime too.
Is mainstream news even covering this? Most of the people I talk to have no clue about it.
Probably not. Why cover real issues when they can sanewash conspiracy nuts…?
Seems like the whole “a back door will be used by adversaries” people were right. Who would have thought? Sure seems like all the cops saying that they would be real safe, don’t worry, let’s break encryption so we can be more shitty were wrong. Fuck the cops. Use signal. Acab
So, do something about it?
The hackers are using backdoors intended for federal agencies to perform «wiretaps»/surveillance. There has been FBI agents that low key recommended «responsible use of encryption».
The takeaway is that there is no way to make a weakness that only the “good guys” has access to. The weakness is there regardless of who is trying to take advantage of it. And this story teaches us that the weakness will be breached. Now it’s primarily China, Russia, Iran and Israel that’s roaming free inside the US telecommunications infrastructure.
You can read about it here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
How many boat anchors to they have?!
