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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: 0.283s | 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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tempodox ◴[30 Aug 25 16:58 UTC] No.45076126[source]▶
Maybe this idiocy could be explained by the idea that the powers that be are more afraid of their own citizens than of any foreign threat.
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themafia ◴[30 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45077231[source]▶
Take it one step further. Foreign threats are often manufactured or overplayed for their value in convincing American citizens to hand over even more power to their government.
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1. lyu07282 ◴[30 Aug 25 23:04 UTC] No.45078779[source]▶
That take is only deemed acceptable in the abstract, but if you mentioned any current examples people would loose their shit and crucify you for even suggesting it. "We oppose every war except the current war and support all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now"