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Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor (www.schneier.com)
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Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.

Refering to a story published by the Wall Street Journal, security expert Bruce Schneier writes "that the attack wasn’t against the broadband providers directly, but against one of the intermediary companies that sit between the government CALEA requests and the broadband providers".

"For years, the security community has pushed back against these backdoors, pointing out that the technical capability cannot differentiate between good guys and bad guys. And here is one more example of a backdoor access mechanism being targeted by the “wrong” eavesdroppers."

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, that's what it would have to be, right? OP probably thinks it's impossible because GAI is impossible. I think it's likely impossible because there's no moral system that's both totally specific and which we could all agree on, even roughly.

Either way, a good guy detector is far off at the very least, and we're going to have to struggle for the cause of good, whatever that may be, the old fashioned political way.