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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (pluralistic.net)
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As if anybody here needs a reason to be wary of what you do online, this essay shares how a foreign adversary used back doors that were intentionally put in place to spy on Americans and how the rest of the world probably has the same back doors.

I especially appreciate the phrase "nerd harder" and the quote, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia".

How can IT folk help politicans to understand?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It turns out surveillance capitalism was the fox in the hen house all along. Who woulda thunk?

NOTE: I consider the secret police (aka "intelligence" agencies) and the revolving door between their multi-billion dollar contractors a core tenet of, and intrinsic to, surveillance capitalism... because why split hairs when they're all coordinating to attack our civil liberties?