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CATASTROPHIC: Chinese hackers massively wiretapped 🇺🇸USA by compromising the interception portals mandated under US law. Remember this the next time a government demands encryption backdoors. By: h/t READ: wsj.com/tech/cybersecu
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Manufacturers of networking and phone gear must follow specific standards for 'lawful interception' in different jurisdictions (e.g. CALEA & ETSI's standards) But as we learn time & time again, the scope of potential access & harm almost never matched by efforts to detect &
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There's constant pressure from governments to bake-in systems for access. Failure to comply with those demands is met with big sanctions. Just look at Durov. Yet I predict that there will be zero meaningful accountability over this breach.
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profdeibert
@RonDeibert
Another reminder that lawful access systems (ie, backdoors) can become major sources of personal & national insecurity China🇨🇳operators penetrated networks of Verizon, AT&T & Lumen Tech @bysarahkrouse @dnvolz @aviswanatha @bobmcmillan wsj.com/tech/cybersecu via @WSJ
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When commercial entities build systems that capture or can access mass data, hackers & intelligence services will come for them. Whether it's for advertising or lawful interception. They will get breached. It's just a matter of when.
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John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton
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STAGGERING: Nearly all @ATT customers' text & call records breached. An unknown entity now has an NSA-level view into Americans' lives. Damage isn't limited to AT&T customers. But everyone they interacted with. Also a huge national security incident given government customers
History note: Remember the 2004-2005 #Greek wiretapping case? Wiretapping functionality in Vodafone's @ericsson switches was exploited to duplicate Greek gov calsl to prepaid phones, likely by a certain foreign government. Perhaps #China thought it would be funny to recycle a
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The real story of the SALT TYPHOON compromise is one of recklessness & prioritizing access over security again & again.
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JD Work
@HostileSpectrum
The disclosure of SALT TYPHOON intrusions against US warranted access functions in telecom infrastructure is precisely the fulfillment of warning against mandated backdoors for merely administrative execution. We have known for over 15 years that this is a priority domestic
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We must not keep all our national security eggs in Verizon & ATT's baskets. Legacy carriers & ISPs keep proving to us that protecting & securing our data is just not a priority. More encryption in more places & privacy-focused companies are both sorely needed.
Pardon the interruption while every civil liberties advocate points out that they've warned about this for decades👇 Regularly scheduled programming of officials demanding backdoors & making unrealistic promises of safety will return shortly.
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Everyone on the encryption and CALEA beat has been flagging this risk forever. Sometimes it really sucks being right. x.com/jsrailton/stat…
Personal observation: Anyone else notice that when backdoor hawks leave government... many moderate or shift their positions on surveillance and interception? I believe that the give us access position with a blindness to downside risk & abuse potential is a side effect of
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Reflect on the volume of discussion of a TikTok as a national security threat to the US from #China. At least we've got a choice of whether or not to install it. Yet with China's compromise of US lawful intercept portals, we're all stuck in that data. No choice. But I predict
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reminds me of Tetra, the encryption protocol operated by governments, law enforcement, military and emergency services organizations in Europe, the UK, and other countries. For over 2 decades a backdoor allowed others to exploit it -> the solution -> open source it -
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Mr. Railton is spot on—compromised phones, iPads, and tablets on workplace Wi-Fi create backdoors for hackers. This is even more alarming when considering critical sectors like Quebec Hydro, which powers much of the northeastern seaboard in both the U.S. and Canada. From power
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Failure of NASA Lunar Lander ‘Peregrine’ I predicted that the launch of the and Peregrine Lunar Lander would not succeed, indicating that the United States’ return to the Moon would not be achieved through this mission. My analysis included a comprehensive
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afaict, many intel services have the ability to track people in real time via their phones. we can thank the legacy phone system (pstn) for ensuring the cellular system is designed like shit
I worked in cyber security in DC. This is typical. Do you know how many CISO had no cyber experience? Those that did often ZERO hands on experience. So much BS.
Master stroke, I must say. How can I even be mad? They achieved surveillance parity on this US signal source and ensured that if this was discovered, it would expose US surveillance and make them look even smarter in comparison.
It is agrivating that American citizens don't understand the extent that their government has gone to invade the privacy of their citizens through coersion practices that are no different from that exercised in totalitarian regimes! - - And yet, here we are..
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I love how everytime a "backdoor" account, vulnerability, protocol, etc was found in foreign hardware the immediate thought was to ban that hardware from western nations. All the while every networking vendor, communication provider, social media service, etc have LEO backdoors.
Surely it’s up to both phone and data providers to ensure their security is tripled locked from hackers? The fact that hackers may have had access to law enforcement requested information for months, is gobsmacking. What IT department doing?
Comme pour les fakenews, il n'y a aucune raison que l'état profond occidental garde le monopole de la surveillance de masse. Il n'est donc pas étonnant que de nouveaux acteurs privés et étrangers interviennent.
I’m afraid many don’t realize how close we are to a Cold War 2.0. If the PRC endures a significant economic collapse, standby. Their abysmal birth rates, youth unemployment, real estate Ponzi scheme, the reshoring of global mfging, etc., may drive the CCP to desperate measures
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It’s not like anyone ever brought up this issue anytime the government demanded backdoors be installed. Oh wait, they did! 🤦‍♂️
Vulnerabilities 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Byron Wan
@Byron_Wan
South Korea's military has been forced to remove over 1,300 🇨🇳 surveillance cameras supplied by a South Korean company from its bases after learning that they could be used to transmit recorded footage externally by connecting to a specific Chinese server.
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I think the only way this is ever going to get fixed is if hackers start leaking policitians' dirty laundry regularly, just to show how unsecure the entire system is. 🤔 Then maybe people in charge would have some actual incentive to fix it.
The problem with surveillance is, not surprisingly, counter surveillance. One man’s tool is another man’s weapon.