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China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos

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    drannex
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    I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying. In other news, Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is donating 300m to fund cybersecurity for the US.

    The senator added that China's activities make Russia-linked incidents like the SolarWinds supply chain incident and the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline look like "child’s play."

    Warner told The Times the extent of China's activity remains unknown, and that "The barn door is still wide open, or mostly open."

    I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying. In other news, Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is donating 300m to fund cybersecurity for the US.

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

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    1. Eji1700
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      It's also annoying because for a long time the US was the leader in "lol we've got the tech and you don't" and we used that to hit other nations systems. Regardless of how you feel about that or...

      I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying.

      It's also annoying because for a long time the US was the leader in "lol we've got the tech and you don't" and we used that to hit other nations systems. Regardless of how you feel about that or who deserved it or what you think about our alphabet agencies doing stuff like that, we KNEW how trivial it was to compromise their stuff.

      And yet we've done basically nothing at a legislative level to actually ensure our own shit is in order. Now everyone has teams and teams of talented coders with slush funds to buy 0 days from the few they don't find, and they're screwing us over just as badly. Hell that's implying they need 0 days rather than "hi i'm from IT help desk, need your PW and 2FA so I can get your email back online"

      Should an ACTUAL world war kick off and not instantly devolve into nuclear annihilation, I suspect we're going to see a ton of digital infrastructure across the world implode.

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