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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (pluralistic.net)
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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 149 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

~~China~~ USA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 67 points 1 month ago

If the door exists, then it can be opened

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And this is why the NSA is supposed to close exploits rather than harvest them for surveillance.

This is why surveillance backdoors are always bad, and you can't math around that.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Can't weasel around math you mean? They don't think they can, it's collateral damage.