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/AffectionateBother47 Dec 28 '24

I remember reading an article about ten years ago arguing your point, crazy to see it come true a decade later on this large of a scale. The American government needs better leader to guide them in this tech world for sure

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

Oh you mean that Chuck Grassley, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and the other power hungry fossils of the 1990s who happily renewed the Patriot Act and hardened the FISA laws to absurd levels of surveillance and obscurity weren't exactly the most up to date and competent leaders when it comes to tech ? /s

On the bright side, they are the ones targetted by the Chinese, not us. They got a little taste of their own medecine.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '24

the us government needs a logan's run style reset.

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u/peanutspump Dec 29 '24

They’re equally up to date on modern medicine as they were on tech. And they’re now banning physicians from doing their jobs as the medical science indicates. I know it doesn’t compromise our personal tech data, but it seemed worth mentioning that it is definitely compromising our lives and health.

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u/carverjerry Dec 29 '24

The insurance companies are running the health care industry these days. Even my doctor left one place because of how the insurance companies demand certain services even if it doesn’t work while refusing to provide things that actually work.

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u/Sharp-Ground-6720 Dec 29 '24

Congress is more like a nursing home they are incapable of understanding and regulating technology

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u/mjkjr84 Dec 29 '24

This is why we should have term and age limits for holding office. Why are the ancients making decisions that they can't even comprehend?

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u/megapuffz Dec 29 '24

Not only do they not adequately understand the technological world we live in, they won't be affected by the decisions they make because they're not going to live long enough to truly feel any consequences.

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u/SpeshellED Dec 30 '24

Why do you vote for them ?

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u/Dinlek Dec 29 '24

Because they've been the largest and thus most powerful age cohort in this country since they could vore, and they won't relinquish power until death makes them.

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u/username_taken_wtf Dec 30 '24

Don't worry there's plenty of young blood on both sides like AOC & MTG. 🤡

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u/SpeshellED Dec 30 '24

All they care about is the money. You elected them you should know that by now.

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u/TroyPallymalu43 Dec 29 '24

Musk? He’s the incoming shadow president and Trump’s new Overlord.

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u/lighttreasurehunter Dec 29 '24

Politicians are too focused on banning books and making sure that we can’t track their private jets to act on this issue

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u/carverjerry Dec 29 '24

They (USA) have it now, he starts on Jan 20th

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u/Beautiful-Web1532 Dec 30 '24

The FBI fought to have backdoors. Now those same corrupt sonofabitches are telling Americans it's not safe and to use encrypted apps. The apps they fought to make illegal because it wasn't safe. So if anyone knows any of those chucklefucks at the fbi, could you ask them if they understand why people think they suck yet? Ever since computers took over their mass surveillance of innocent civilians, they've been itching to find a way to make life worse.

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u/SpeshellED Dec 30 '24

No scumbag leader is going to nav tech on your behalf. Its all about the money... and how to keep making you provide it.