> This indiscriminate targeting, as the FBI and White House security officials have previously noted, allowed Beijing’s snoops to geo-locate millions of mobile phone users, monitor their internet traffic, and, in some cases, record their phone calls. Victims reportedly included President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Welp... that's quite a capable piece of surveillance.
I imagined it involved tapping to cell towers/cell infrastructure, but the details at the wikipedia page [1] suggest servers were hacked instead? Did they hack AT&T servers or something?
Side note, are there any ways to not get your data stolen in such cases? I would imagine using only a VPN might help, but if they're getting data from triangulation you couldn't do much short of turning off your phone, right?
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