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

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287 points Bender | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | source
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oa335 ◴[30 Aug 25 15:08 UTC] No.45075313[source]▶
> What this really underscores is that what the PRC is doing through these proxy actors is really reckless and unbounded, in a way that is significantly outside of the norms of what we see in the espionage space,"

What norms are he referring to?

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1. kevindamm ◴[30 Aug 25 18:15 UTC] No.45076842[source]▶
Indiscriminate targeting. It's clarified at the end of that paragraph, and was part of the article's lead-in:

   "There's a thought among the public that if you don't work in a sensitive area that the PRC might be interested in for its traditional espionage activities, then you are safe, they will not target you," [deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division] said, during a Thursday interview with The Register. "As we have seen from Salt Typhoon, this is no longer an assumption that anyone can afford to make."
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2. BlueTemplar ◴[30 Aug 25 23:56 UTC] No.45079078[source]▶
That's an oxymoron : it's not targeting at this point.

(Some high value people do seem to be targeted for even more intensive spying.)