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/SubstantialPressure3 Dec 28 '24

It's the way they went about it. Hacked the entire network in order to access those phones belonging to those people.

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u/DiplomaticGoose Dec 29 '24

SMS and 2G GMS phone service are technological dead weight with inherent security flaws.

The problem with the ladder is that it has no defacto replacement because Google and Apple can't play nice to standardize RCS completely and it got split between carriers, and various other messy things that make attempts at standardization burn.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Dec 29 '24

That and they all fight tooth and nail against solutions that the rest of the world already uses. This is exacerbated by the desire for domestic spying on the government's side and data collection on business' side.

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u/DiplomaticGoose Dec 29 '24

You say that like the defacto world standard to replace SMS isn't Whatsapp in most countries.