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The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite
China reportedly hacked the wiretap systems required by U.S. internet providers under a 1994 U.S. wiretapping law.
“I think it absolutely was inevitable,” said Matt Blaze, a professor at Georgetown Law and expert on secure systems, told TechCrunch about the latest compromises of telecom and internet providers. Blaze told TechCrunch that the Chinese intrusions into U.S. wiretap systems are the latest example of malicious abuse of a backdoor ostensibly meant for lawful and legal purposes. Across the European Union, member states are working to legally require messaging apps to scan their citizens’ private communications for suspected child abuse material.
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