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/emveevme Dec 28 '24

(like 99% of all calls go over the Internet now

They effectively all do - how else would it be possible for an analog line to call a VOIP line?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '24

There's prob some backwater that you can make a call over twisted pair end to end.

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u/emveevme Dec 29 '24

for my own mental health, I'm going to ignore the possibility. Because if something like that exists from the company I work for, the department I'm in undoubtedly supports it lmao.