11-03-2024, 04:05 PM
This post was last modified 11-03-2024, 04:39 PM by UltraBudgie.
From the Washington Post:
https://archive.ph/XC0SY
China has come a long way since Mao. Their surveillance-state expertise is world-class, the result of building their own "universal monitoring" system spying on their own citizens. Every phone call and text message in China is potentially recorded and monitored, cities are full of surveillance cameras, automated systems digitally follow cars and travel. Purchases are tracked, all data is collected, sophisticated AIs are used to analyze activity and sentiment and influence behaviour.
Now, they're bringing that nightmare to the US. The worst thing is, even if this can be defended against, it could possibly come at the expense of some of our freedoms and privacy. In order to find and neutralize these Chinese threats, our government would have to do monitoring of the Internet and our critical infrastructure, more effectively than our apparently-laughable "homeland security" is responsible for today. No one wants to see the kind of dystopia China "enjoys" overseas here in America.
China is playing a long game here, and, of course, Russia is over in the corner laughing.
https://archive.ph/XC0SY
Quote:Last week, the Chinese hacking and spying operation known as “Salt Typhoon” was revealed to have targeted former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as well as staffers for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and for Congress. The Post has reported that the hackers were able to collect audio and text messages from their targets in a wide-ranging espionage operation, which likely began several months ago.
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The U.S. government and the telecom companies that are dealing with the breach have said very little publicly about it since it was first detected in August, leaving the public to rely on details trickling out through leaks. If millions of Americans are vulnerable to Chinese surveillance, they have a right to know now. More information needs to be shared, despite the sensitivity of the issue, the close timing to the election and what remains unknown.
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“Right now, China has the ability to listen to any phone call in the United States, whether you are the president or a regular Joe, it makes no difference,” one of the hack victims briefed by the FBI told me. “This has compromised the entire telecommunications infrastructure of this country.”
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Krishnamoorthi said he believes the companies have a moral and perhaps a legal obligation to inform their customers about a breach of this nature. Americans can only change their practices — by relying more on encrypted apps, for instance — if they are aware of the threat, he said.
China has come a long way since Mao. Their surveillance-state expertise is world-class, the result of building their own "universal monitoring" system spying on their own citizens. Every phone call and text message in China is potentially recorded and monitored, cities are full of surveillance cameras, automated systems digitally follow cars and travel. Purchases are tracked, all data is collected, sophisticated AIs are used to analyze activity and sentiment and influence behaviour.
Now, they're bringing that nightmare to the US. The worst thing is, even if this can be defended against, it could possibly come at the expense of some of our freedoms and privacy. In order to find and neutralize these Chinese threats, our government would have to do monitoring of the Internet and our critical infrastructure, more effectively than our apparently-laughable "homeland security" is responsible for today. No one wants to see the kind of dystopia China "enjoys" overseas here in America.
China is playing a long game here, and, of course, Russia is over in the corner laughing.
