It's truly amazing we've reached the level of cybersecurity where China has hacked so many US telecom companies that the US government is now recommending the general public uses end-to-end encrypted messaging (something they spent the last 10+ years trying to ban "because terrorism"). - ThreadSky

malwaretech.com • 94 days ago

It's truly amazing we've reached the level of cybersecurity where China has hacked so many US telecom companies that the US government is now recommending the general public uses end-to-end encrypted messaging (something they spent the last 10+ years trying to ban "because terrorism").

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shredybettymtb.bsky.social•94 days ago

What’s wild is at the same time they’re saying to do this, they’re also demanding all the companies they recommend give the govt back doors to that encrypted data.

archstreet.bsky.social•94 days ago

It’s not like most cybersecurity experts were warning this would likely happen 20-something years ago.

darklordoftheit.bsky.social•94 days ago

Not at all. All those supposed "experts" and not one warning.

archstreet.bsky.social•94 days ago

Whoops I’m sorry I was wrong. It goes back almost 30 years. https://archive.epic.org/crypto/clipper/

retrodes.net•94 days ago

Time to bring this one out again?

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thievingcat.bsky.social•94 days ago

This is the correct take.

maxashermiller.bsky.social•93 days ago

I've still seen some cops complaining in the press about E2EE because it prevents them from violating privacy, literally in the same quote as they warn people about Salt Typhoon

daveandersen.bsky.social•94 days ago

And then they'll be pushing the clipper chip version X again in a few years because won't somebody think of the (children FBI, ad nauseam)

evacide.bsky.social•94 days ago

And you bet I will be quoting the CISA recommendations every damn time law enforcement insists that they need a bill requiring encryption backdoors.

dawisco.bsky.social•94 days ago

I think the term they used was 'responsible encryption', meaning essentially encryption they can break

damiangray.bsky.social•94 days ago

"Responsible encryption" being the same kind that China can access backdoors from because they exist?

landonchelf.bsky.social•94 days ago

Right. The hole we required for secret wiretaps got hacked, so now we need holes in your end to end encrypted options.

hotdoganswers.com•94 days ago

And the best part is that that massive surveillance apparatus will be wrapped up in a bow and handed back to the megalomaniac for the next four years. That scares me way more than “china or whatever” because it can *actually* do immediate and tangible harm

docvalerie.bsky.social•92 days ago

Good to hear ANYONE make sense on this.

Are they just trying to open our backdoors to the Russian hackers, following the Chinese approach?

fulgurbellator.bsky.social•92 days ago

I almost spit out my alkaseltzer when I saw that. Not even 4 years prior I was arguing with my senator in TN about why you couldn’t ban math.

stevenjs.bsky.social•93 days ago

Unfortunate if it’s used by terrorists but how are you gonna message securely without end to end encryption?

cyberphilosohack.bsky.social•94 days ago

I think their message was only for the goodies, not the baddies

rebeccameadows.bsky.social•94 days ago

I have to be honest, the degree to which Chinese and Russian security services have essentially operated *unchallenged* since the dawn of the Internet, makes me wonder what the hell our own intelligence agencies have been doing all this time?

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