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

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287 points Bender | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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gosub100 ◴[30 Aug 25 16:27 UTC] No.45075887[source]▶
Why is it suddenly a problem when it's a foreign government?
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fwip ◴[30 Aug 25 16:58 UTC] No.45076122[source]▶
Exactly. China can't do much with my data, compared to the US government or my insurance company.
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1. impossiblefork ◴[30 Aug 25 19:20 UTC] No.45077248[source]▶
Business requires security. If you can do anything physical in the US, or in Europe etc. then you must be doing something so clever that secrecy is warranted.