OT - Can You Hear Me Now? - 嗯

China hacking 8 major telecom companies in the US seems like a big deal. Not a lot of coverage…

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/chinese-hack-global-telecom-ongoing-00192410

Word on the street is that the telecom companies didn’t detect the hack, and are clueless as to how to stop it.

The Capital Critters were targeted. If you were China, would you release embarrassing phone calls / texts now, or wait to use that information to persuade politicians in the future? I know what I’d do.

It must be very, very, very bad - our government is telling us to encrypt our communications.

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I wonder if it was them (China) that messed with WhatsApp yesterday?

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I dunno, but probably not. WhatsApp is encrypted, not much to see there. Outages happen from time to time.

Given recent election results, I would say that most pols now are utterly shameless, and their voters are OK with that.

Steve

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@steve203

Bingo!

2020
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Doesn’t seem be be getting enough attention from Congress either.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/12/12/we-need-to-talk-about-salt-typhoon-00183727

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