FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

The CISA announcement, which contains a lot more substance, was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065458

Man, good thing Doge and MAGA gutted 30% of that agency[1]. We certainly don't need a bunch of bureaucrats doing (checks notes) cybersecurity and infrastructure security right now.

[1] https://archive.is/20250603190111/https://www.axios.com/2025...

I mean, clearly they weren't very effective anyway.

direct link: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

These were intrusions into private companies.

Agencies aren’t allowed to fix private company security.

So we definitely should just give up and not do anything instead. That makes sense.

So what is funding the government going to do then? At some point you have to make people responsible for their own computer systems.

Yeah, defund the government spying apparatus if it isn't useful

Really? CISA isn't allowed to work with any private companies on a problem that impacts critical infrastructure and thus national security? Do you have any sources for this claim?

Nobody's saying that CISA would break down Verizon's doors and go to their keyboards and start pushing commits, but they sure as hell are working with the telecom industry.

Are you arguing for entirely dismantling the government's counter-espionage apparatus because it's not 100% effective? China would love that.

How effective is it?