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

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.

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).

>Computers can never be 100% secure.

This is ridiculous defeatism. You are going to need more 0's than exist in the global economy to crack many cryptosystems.

I don't need to crack crypto, I just need to find an admin that can be blackmailed.

Then design the system so that there is not a single source of administrative failure.

and also make sure to design a system without any bugs

You should look into cryptography. It actually is possible to design open systems provably without bugs or single sources of failure. It's possible to build mechanisms of plausible deniability that are largely immune to rubber-hose attacks.

It's also possible to design systems with an intermediate level of security. With your attitude, you might as well leave your house unlocked because any competent locksmith could break in.