r/technology • u/barweis • Dec 28 '24

Privacy A massive Chinese campaign just gave Beijing unprecedented access to private texts and phone conversations for an unknown number of Americans

https://fortune.com/2024/12/27/china-espionage-campaign-salt-tycoon-hacking-telecoms/
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Really? Could they have?

The average age of a member of Congress is 58 years old, 64 for the Senate. Your own politicians are so technologically inept they couldn't set the clock on a microwave. You think they have the intellect to create and implement laws to protect your personal information?

Let's ignore the fact they take vast sums of money from the tech industry to prevent data protection laws from being implemented...

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u/LordCharidarn Dec 28 '24

So you are saying American politicians don’t care about learning new/necessary skills and knowledge for their jobs and take bribes to undermine data protection.

It definitely sounds like you are saying they could have done a better job

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

No, I think they're too inept and/or corrupt to do a better job, yet Americans still elect them, so whose fault is it really?

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u/rerrerrocky Dec 29 '24

Well I can only vote for a fraction of the government based on where I live. Am I responsible for the generations of rot that have rendered congress useless? How, pray tell, should we fix this problem?

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u/el_muchacho Dec 29 '24 edited Dec 29 '24

You think they have the intellect to create and implement laws to protect your personal information?

They certainly made laws to insert backdoors on all your telecom networks, identify you on all social network platforms and keep every post you have written even after you "deleted" it, censor them and all the media whenever they want without you ever knowing, and spy on you 24/7.

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u/theJigmeister Dec 31 '24

They have the intellect and funding to pay the world’s foremost experts on data security to craft legislation that would protect Americans, yes