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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor (pluralistic.net)
submitted 1 month ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 127 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What?? But the FBI called dibs on that backdoor! /s

It's almost like putting backdoors into software as a whole is a bad idea cause anyone who knows of it can use it, not just "tHe GoOd GuYs"

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

cause anyone who knows of it can use it

…and the ones who don't know of it will one day become the ones who know