Summary
A ninth U.S. telecom firm has been hacked in the Chinese espionage campaign “Salt Typhoon,” which gave Beijing access to private texts and calls of Americans, including senior government officials.
The Biden administration confirmed the breach after issuing guidance to detect Chinese hackers.
Officials call for mandatory cybersecurity regulations, as voluntary measures are deemed insufficient.
The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.
China denies involvement.
Oh, no worries, Congress approved a $3 billion project this month that will come out of our taxes to pay the telecoms to do what they should have done in a span of over a decade. (Still remember the Huawei cell radios in my lab and going “wtf m8, we make these ourselves?!⁄¿”) The poor suffering telecoms can’t pay for it themselves, that’s just too much work. They’re welfare bitches.
A tale as old as time, just like when those same goddamn telecoms took taxpayer money to modernize their shit and they simply didn’t instead and went with stock buybacks and the like.
Fucking Verizon got paid a shit ton of money, I’m not even going to look up how much, to run fiber to every community of any decent size. In my state they did, right up until they hit the city. Running fiber in a developed area is crazy expensive compared to running it through rural areas. So they just took all the government money and said they did what they asked for. It took over ten years for a local company to get fiber to my neighborhood, and I’m right beside downtown in the biggest city in the state! To be fair it’s not a big city.