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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: 0.438s | source
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michael1999 ◴[30 Aug 25 15:52 UTC] No.45075658[source]▶
The security community warned that making Lawful Access easy and automated would guarantee that bad people would penetrate the network.

And now we have China using CALEA-crippled systems to slurp up the entire USA network. Exactly as predicted.

And this - "outside of the norms of what we see in the espionage space" - LOL. ROTFL even. The NSA tapped Google's backbone! Have we forgotten Room 641A? MAINWAY? Poindexter and TIA? Palantir?

The NSA used to play defence and offence, and has gone full-offence for a generation. Did anyone really believe that only the USA could play offence?

Morons.

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1. robotnikman ◴[30 Aug 25 22:19 UTC] No.45078492[source]▶
>The NSA used to play defence and offence, and has gone full-offence for a generation.

And IIRC most of those people who used to work for the NSA now work at private firms like the NSO group, which is pretty scary when you think about it. It's hard to blame them though, if I was being offered the amount of money they were given, I would probably take it as well.

I recommend the book 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends' by Nicole Perlroth, it gives some good insights into what is going on behind the scenes (though with some of the major events which have happened since it was published some things may be outdated. Either way it's a good read.)

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2. michael1999 ◴[30 Aug 25 22:24 UTC] No.45078528[source]▶
Yeah. Turning exploit production into a “respectable” business didn’t help.