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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: 0.247s | source
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nekitamo ◴[30 Aug 25 15:11 UTC] No.45075341[source]▶
This is what we get for installing mandatory government backdoors all over our communications infrastructure. Unbelievable that such a critical piece of infrastructure wasn't secured properly. But after the OPM hack and the bungled implementation of CIA "drop sites" online, nothing about our government's cyber incompetence surprises me anymore.
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mensetmanusman ◴[30 Aug 25 17:47 UTC] No.45076589[source]▶
Computers can never be 100% secure. It’s just a matter of how many zeros one is willing to spend, especially when physical access to the hardware is so easy (for nation states).
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Veserv ◴[30 Aug 25 17:59 UTC] No.45076710[source]▶
You only need to spend barely 7 zeros to defeat any organization in the world. About half of a single tank to defeat any commercial IT system no matter how much they spend on “security”.
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beeflet ◴[30 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45077036[source]▶
Then let them spend it instead of giving your data away for free
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1. Veserv ◴[30 Aug 25 19:52 UTC] No.45077508[source]▶
That is what they did. Salt Typhoon is what they got. This will continue to happen until critical software systems are secure against state actors and requires tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to compromise instead of millions to tens of millions (in the hardest cases).