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Chinese hackers took advantage of the US government's own surveillance infrastructure and intentional lack of privacy safeguards. 🤣 (gizmodo.com)

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[–] hackerwacker@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Warner is chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and a former venture capitalist who bet big on telecom in the 1980s and 90s, making him uniquely qualified to talk about threats to U.S. communications infrastructure.

More like uniquely qualified to take advantage of panic funding that he's trying to create.

All the major U.S. carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, were impacted, according to the Post. Incredibly, Warner says the hackers are still inside the U.S. system and there’s no obvious way to get them out that doesn’t involve physically replacing old equipment, according to Warner.

Huh how convenient

The hackers behind the infiltration of U.S. telecom infrastructure are known to Western intelligence agencies as Salt Typhoon

What's great about this hacking fiction is that there's essentially no physical evidence. It's "just try us bro, we wouldn't lie for war and profit"

I expect this to ramp up significantly since there's no actual aggression coming out of China they could point to.