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.
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
If everything is stolen and public then you don’t need so much encryption. Get with the capitalistic program here.
Is mainstream news even covering this? Most of the people I talk to have no clue about this.
Probably not. Why cover real issues when they can sanewash conspiracy nuts…?
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?
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 removedes.
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.
Because that ‘chinese surveillance’ wasn’t any different from the NSA backdoors. Exactly what this group exploits, incidentally.
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.
No announcement of which telecoms?
You can safely assume it’s all of them.
Probably. 9 has been confirmed. https://apnews.com/article/united-states-china-hacking-espionage-c5351ef7c2207785b76c8c62cde6c513
How many boat anchors to they have?!
