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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 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 year ago

If the door exists, then it can be opened

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 year 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 year ago

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