Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.…

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago*

This indiscriminate targeting, as the FBI and White House security officials have previously noted, allowed Beijing’s snoops to geo-locate millions of mobile phone users, monitor their internet traffic, and, in some cases, record their phone calls.

Oh no! If anybody's going to spy on our civilians, it's going to be us. Sarcastic snide remarks aside, good to know the government potentially stopped a major national cyber attack even if it was about 5 years after salt typhoon's digital reconnaissance began.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Pfft. Amateurs. Doge did it in 2 weeks.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Is it even possible to remove the threat after all this time? They must have footholds everywhere

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