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China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History' (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/cybersecurity

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26768429

America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haven't people been warning for years china was selling telecom backbone equipment at a loss. Probably so they would have their equipment with their backdoors in most of the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That stuff has been removed from major telco networks. This was the Lawful Intercept functionality being hacked on some sort of device.