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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (pluralistic.net)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months 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 4 points 2 months ago

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