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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: 0s | 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. godelski ◴[30 Aug 25 22:58 UTC] No.45078734[source]▶
A door with a lock can only be opened by those with a key...

as well as anyone that can pick the lock, jimmy the lock, remove the door from its hinges, remove the lock, break the door down, go under the door, go over the door, get somebody with a key to open the door, and many other methods which can be found with just a little imagination.