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Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails. Salt Typhoon has infiltrated major telecom networks, proving backdoors to encryption are a catastrophic risk.


Salt Typhoon has infiltrated major telecom networks, proving backdoors to encryption are a catastrophic risk.

“Given the state of detection, it is impossible for us to predict when we will fully drive the attackers out of these networks,” Jeff Greene, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, said at a press briefing. In a warning issued this week, U.S. officials admitted they have been unable to fully expel Chinese state-sponsored hackers from the networks of major telecommunications and internet service providers. Comic showing Apple CEO Tim Cook unlocking the iPhone while the FBI, hackers, repressive regimes and more stand in line to get access to the decrypted data.

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