CATASTROPHIC: Chinese hackers massively wiretapped 🇺🇸USA by compromising the interception portals mandated under US law.
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) October 5, 2024
Remember this the next time a government demands encryption backdoors.
By: @bysarahkrouse @dnvolz @aviswanatha @bobmcmillan h/t @RonDeibert
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Weirdly little orange site discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749046 
This ought to be on the front page. It's huge, and a practical proof of the risks of giving the quote-unquote good guys the keys to our encryption.
This is a follow up to this story where they report Chinese hackers are targeting ISPs but don't say how: https://archive.is/RqwMQ
This latest story WSJ archive link: https://archive.ph/y4JOI reveals that they were using 
mandated wiretaps/backdoors
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privacy is a hoax
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I'd spent my whole life trying to be some kind of cyberpunk but I realized about a year ago that anybody who really wants to can know everything about me. The real way to protect yourself is to be somebody who nobody cares enough about to go after.
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i've gone a step further and left a bunch of information in keys places such that people responsible for cleaning up existential scum can know who i am,
and that going after is not only a waste of their time,
but to their detriment due to interference with my potential.
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it's a bit annoying to me that google has been making it harder to generally search people's past, as if privacy is a good thing.
i blame foids for this. foids lack understanding for free information due to hysteria.
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Ofc WHORES would want to hide their past lol
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jesus thot-patrol mode ACTIVATED
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the real question is why moids put up with this. fricking cucks the lot of them.
i mean who built the internet? moids- so why we letting foids boss us around on what we do with it?
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I try to go with the rabid dog approach. Something so sick and crazy looking you dont want to even risk going near it much less tring to frick with it.
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I just constantly spam lots of plausible disinformation about me.
Or do I?
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Idk youre such a mystery. Im just happy you made time to have lunch with me last week.
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Normally I don't like going downtown but I will meet a friend at Fogo de Chao sometimes.
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all I know is that was the best boston claim chowder ive had since I was actually in New England last fall.
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Vault 7 shows the glowies always have a way to hack into any device with an Internet connection, and even some which don't. An individual can't possibly hope to beat thousands of people paid to build malware.
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Look dude by the end of the day there isn't much the CIA can do with my porn history as that's not within their purview.
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didn't say u should care.
heck, in the long run i see transparency as not only a good thing, but a critical thing.
tho we do need to go about building transparency in the right manner and not the wrong manner.
the wrong manner can and will get abused to our collective disadvantage, while the right manner will be a keystone facet of not going extinct.
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The problem with global transparency is that it is only possible in an even more homogeneous system than we have today.
to be quite honest I believe it is simply not possible in a dimorphic species such as us humans to be fully transparent as a civilization because most of our more deeply programmed desires/ wants can often result in active revulsion in the other gender. The one disadvantage of a sexually competitive species pretending it is not one. Both sides develop strategies that benefit them the most and would cause revulsion in the other when caught due to the inability to relate while seeing attempts at sexual conquest over others.
This is just one example of how we are not biologically capable of the level of transparency that is desired in our stories of utopia.
I haven't even touched upon the cultural layer where we are behaviorally far more heterogeneous than most other species as far as I can gather.
The best we can do right now is to create a global admixture population where everybody is close enough genetically to have an in group bias towards the entire global community.
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!biofoids !r-slurs come read this goofy shit
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Meanwhile humans have hundreds to thousands of different job roles.
Meanwhile humans have multiple mating strategies such as negging, complimenting, gift giving, marriage proposals, arranged marriage, polycules, etc.
I don't get it.
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Frick off r-slur
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bruh u need to literally touch grass more, preferably somewhere outside ur home country for a few years. for the most part we are vastly more homogenous than heterogenous, and this is a by product our the physical nature of our existence and how we spend most our lives dealing and up keeping that.
yes yes, we are very confused on this fact, and get caught up in bs nuances we think creates huge chasms... and then act on those confusions violently self-inflicting trauma on ourselves, reinforcing our delusions. but the reality is these chasms are entirely in our head, and not something inherent to our nature.
the solution to this is free information in general, including in the long run, full transparency. look: without transparency, truth is hard to find, with few having the time to really seek it out, if even possible. of course such a world gets all fricked up and caught up in it's idiocracy. and of course this was an inevitable in our progression, as we inherently evolved from a state of pure cosmic ignorance.
it's worth remembering: we have barely just built the technology for a system of full transparency. heck we might even claim we haven't deployed the internet enough yet to build full transparency. but we have certainly deployed it far enough to start implementing it for all those currently connected. don't be writing it off that soon, jeez... we have millions if not billions of years a head of us to manage, assuming we don't self destruct before we figure ourselves out for good.
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Frick off you European
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!chuds I can't fricking
stand globalists
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!globalists globalmisia
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!nooticers I'm about to be bunker busted
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not a european. eurocucks don't support free speech, a prereq for free information.
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!schizomaxxxers !ranchers a fun conversation between 2 very high IQ individuals is taking place
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My good friend, I would counter that you live too deep within the west and assume that your idea of traveling to other countries is to move from Europe to North America, or North America to Europe. I can assure you the rest of the world lives by very different values than these two regions of the world.
I doubt we have millions of years to manage unless scientific advancements and discoveries are infinite in number and there is no end to the laws of the universe. Simply figuring out everything would lead to either our species ascending or collapsing in on itself because it reached its limits and now only killing each other remained.
We are a species cursed with too much self awareness to find joy living in an existence where all questions have been answered and all limits have been confirmed.
The kind of transparency you are asking for is simply not possible as it has never been practiced till date. You are asking for something completely new and speaking with the confidence of it being something already tried and tested.
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!strayans This guy left you out. Flay him to death.
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right humanity has never implemented progression before
the mere fact ur tried to a claim that something isn't possible because it's never been done is just beyond me.
building transparency society isn't building literal omnipotence, or even just solving all our problems? what made u think that r-slurred thot?
building transparency doesn't suddenly make basic competition a moot point, for some competition it will simply change rules, for plenty more nothing will be affected.
prey tell me: what 3rd world shithole do u hale from?
u thirdies always think ur soooooo different from us westies, but the truth is ur just a dumbfrick, and there's plenty of ignorant fricks just like u in the west as well.
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Not to the extent being discussed here.
We will never have a trans furry polycule on Venus.
That was in reply to a separate statement made by the other goy.
lol. Pottery.
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sure. this isn't something inherent to their nature tho. the west has had it's own fair share of problems over it's history as well, today's superior state of the west is the result of active progression by people who didn't look at problems and throw up their hands cause their thirdie brain was too mindfricked by poverty.
why the frick do i even need to explain this? keep yourself safe already.
idk what u mean by that
logic surely ain't ur strong suit, eh? i'm not arguing that become something hasn't been done, therefore it's possible... i'm arguing it's not an inherent limitation, as therefore progression would have never happened, and that is clearly false.
what r u even smoking? try weed instead, it might chill u the frick out in regards to bringing up a bunch of apparent sexual fantasies u have. those aren't related to the discussion.
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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!moidmoment this comment right here
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!commenters
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Struggle cuddles for everyone
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A third more based option
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When the frick will any goverment learn that if you mandate a backdoor into something, that instantly opens the door for all skilled malicious actors.
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they know, theyre not concerned though bc survaillance is more importsnt than security to them. Its not about safety its about control.
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In the past, their security being breached has led to networks of CIA operatives going got.
They care about safety, it's just easier to demand mandated wiretaps.
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they have special devices with special software thats free of the backdoors that they put in c9nsumer hardware. It's certainly not impenetrable like anything, butt its different. That said several security breaches have simply happened bc an operative used a personal dwvice anyway despite having access to more reliable gov tech. Just ask Hillary and her servers.
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But but but we made laws that say only THE GOOD GUYS are allowed to do this and THE BAD GUYS are forbidden from doing this! How could this have happened?!?!?
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anytime someone should have this or that extra power "for the greater good" I always point out that theyd be pktentially giving Drumpf thay power to use against BIPOCs, LGBTQIA+ folx, and other marginalized groups. It amazes me how some people(particularly white womxn) immediately jump to enabling governmental tyranny/fascism in the face of fear. White womxn's tears are the most dangerous tool of the neocolonialist power-steucture!
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!goomblers !superheroes do you see the power?
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Yes, yes i do
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it used to be protect the children before that. The one controversial downside to making pedophilic imagery illegal is that any spook can at any time plant p-do porn on your harddrive and have you sent to jail and nobody would even think to defend you about it or humor that you have been tricked.
That's the issue with strong morality, it makes it easier to create methods of blackmail and jailing people that will not be questioned.
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if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear
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God is perfect and even he demands privacy.
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Modesty isn't privacy, you christshitter
All religion is strictly authoritarian
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Unironically dumb take.
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Who could have seen this coming
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What if Bin Laden kidnapped your baby daughter? You'd want the cops to have access to every phone in vicinity before she is defiled? Or would you wait for the judge and jury make a decision on 10000 cases like a cuck?
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What if a bunch of terrorists were going to one day r*pe the women in your family? Why not let the spooks r*pe them first hand just in case to prepare them for the trauma from a location where they have access to therapists rather than wait until the terrorists get to them and there is nothing to prepare their minds? Or would you rather wait for the judges and the international courts to take action?
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I'd teleport behind him, say "amae wai mou shindeirou" and he'd be like "NANI!?!?!?" And explode because I studied the blade
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You mean that thing that never happens actually happened?!
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Probe my backdoor daddy
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The government needs to care about that, not me
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Wasn't this known from the start?
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God I hate NSAcels so frickin much. Our intelligence agencies are useless, they don't even do anything cool, they have zero style, all they do is give Israel and China handy zero say exploits on a platter, plan mass shootings, and arrest the family members of mass shooters/presidential assassins for cp
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Aaaaaand the last link is dead and the second to last doesn't mention the backdoors at all now
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How do you not realize this is a honeypot
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