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Put Elon in charge.

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They actually do know how to fix it and get them out of there. But doing so would probably bring down the message system for a week or more.

But in my view they should do it.

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Could a solution to this be to dismantle the surveillance system, or is it too integrated at this point to be a feasible solution? If that is a potential solution, this may have been a blessing in disguise that could force the U.S. federal government into actions to protect both itself and the liberties of the population, for once.

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Nov 7·edited Nov 7

American telecom companies built for the federal government...

Who was responsible for the access security and data protection?

Being able to read text messages as they come in to the telecom is one thing.

"Chinese hackers have gained access to the backend surveillance and wiretapping system..."

This tells me the telecoms copy the data to a database where the federal government can access it. The Chinese appear have access to the database.

That access should be for Constitutional reasons very restricted and the data should be encrypted at rest and in transit.

My #1 pet peeve when I hear about a data breach is the data wasn't encrypted at rest. Ridiculous and unacceptable.

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We need an absolute firewall blocking internet access from China, Iran, Russia and North Korea. We need to decouple the global economy from any and all of them. It needs to be done yesterday.

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Another thing nobody knows about (unless you’re a cybersecurity professional) is PQC. Go look it up. The Chinese are leading us in quantum cryptography, and with the right breakthrough, they will obsolete every cipher and crypto key system we use today. A huge problem hanging over our heads.

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And of course we gave them the head start with allowing them to lift our IP while flooding the CCP with yen having giving them most of our industry and manufacturing.

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Lot of abbreviations in there.

But Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put on K.P.

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STFU

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Oh boy, this is not good. Not good at all, and Biden obviously won't do a thing about it before he's gone.

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