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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

Oct 5

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

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

Jul 12

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

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

Oct 5

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

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

Oct 5

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

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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@naomibrockwell

"And then I told them, 'The Backdoors will only ever be used by the good guys!'"

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yatharth is in school

@AskYatharth

backdoors for one are backdoors for all

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anushk

@anushkmittal

this is why shapes use end to end encryption

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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vpn + dual end encryption is the only reasonable mode of digital communication for the end user not perfect, but everyone should be doing 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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Back doors are back doors for everyone.

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Interesting

This is catastrophic!! How can we protect ourselves?

Decentralization is the only way we can hope to address these issues. Just assume you have no privacy.

A more expansive reading of the 4th Amendment fixes this:

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

October surprise!

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I was told this was a ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘crazy’

CALEA tunnels are ripe for exploitation. We had one on every hotel and restaurant ATT provided internet service to.

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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.

Telecomm security and cyber security is paramount for protecting economical prosperity and protecting the value created by the economy.

It’s a good working assumption that you have no privacy.

Kyle Beckley

@Kyle_Beckley

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Tim Walz is exactly the guy we need right now. He knows all about getting backdoored by the Chinese

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Foreign Minister of Reasoning

@RyanSmithright

Oct 6

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.

Technically this is an act of war.

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Defaive Labs

@DeFaive

Chinese hackers are the alpha

CryptoTruth

@CryptoTruth2023

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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! -

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- 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.

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This is big

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Is there an alternative for Kaspersky software and services in US? It seems there are not :/

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Adopt $ANYONE protocol and protect yourself

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? Net flow ? That’s my guess… just a sysadmin.

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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?

"I'm from the government and I'm here to listen in on your private comms!" "Which government?"

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.

classical futurist

@EchoFuturist

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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

@DominoTree

Any system made or left intentionally vulnerable will eventually be used by bad actors

Well no shit? This is news? Who makes the hardware. Hello.

This is big.

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egghead

@egghead26570992

Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack - WSJ

It’s not like anyone ever brought up this issue anytime the government demanded backdoors be installed. Oh wait, they did! 🤦‍♂️

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Excellent the Chinese were using the same back door the government was using.

Elaine

@Elaine41379239

Vulnerabilities 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Byron Wan

@Byron_Wan

Sep 18

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.

lol

Backdoors are security bugs waiting to get exploited.

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