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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (pluralistic.net)
submitted 8 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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As if anybody here needs a reason to be wary of what you do online, this essay shares how a foreign adversary used back doors that were intentionally put in place to spy on Americans and how the rest of the world probably has the same back doors.

I especially appreciate the phrase "nerd harder" and the quote, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia".

How can IT folk help politicans to understand?

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

insists on engineering a security exploit into the software

exploit gets exploited

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

OTHER PEOPLE CAN USE DOORS???

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What's the outrage? Those backdoors were made for governmental use. The only thing is that it was not made for foreign government use, but hey, that is just due to the incompetence of those who designed the backdoor...

So the blunders of US agencies did harm to millions of people. Lawsuits, anyone?

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eh?

You can’t build an unpickable back door into a computer system.

You can’t break encryption for only the good guys.

The path to hell is paved with good intentions.

Encryption only works when there is one decryption key. If there are two different keys then it isn’t encrypted bad actors will find a way in