China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor
China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor
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.
324 0 ReplyThink 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.
139 0 ReplyWell 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...
52 0 ReplySorry, I only think of children during school shootings, it's easier that way.
13 0 Replyyou don't want police to think about children, or atleast I don't.
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The FBI is the nefarious party lol
29 0 ReplyWaco intensifies
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ChinaUSA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else146 0 ReplyIf the door exists, then it can be opened
67 0 ReplyAnd 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.
47 0 ReplyUS 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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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"
121 0 Replycause 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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Omg the back doors work for anyone who can gain access to them??? Shocked-pikachu.jpg
70 0 ReplyThis article is getting saved, for the next time some idiot proposes 'lawful backdoors', which will inevitably happen.
66 0 ReplyNervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.
32 0 ReplyI still love the fact that those TSA keys are all available online as 3D files and likely as metal as well
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I remember them trying to get Apple to put in a back door as well
45 0 ReplyOnly 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.
25 0 ReplyDang, you're right! It's like noticing the arrow in fedex
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That was a psyop my man
Got normies super comfortable ;)
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Can't buy Huawei Networking gear, if we get hacked it has the be through our own backdoor.
19 0 Replynice, that'll tech them.
3 0 Reply@db0 works as intended
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