FBI To America: DON'T TEXT ANYONE

[Maxmars]

https://www.newsweek.com/iphone-android-...ck-1996429


I have better idea. Every text message I send is going to now be signed with "Xi Jingping dresses like Winnie The Pooh and goes to furry sex parties."

Just so many things about this I don't like.

I don't like needing to install and use a compulsory encryption app because we can't stop it.

Knowing the PRISM folks can't stop it. And basically admit the Chinese have an upper hand on the spyware front. Like our own backdoor software we insisted on being put in all smart phones was the part of it compromised and they just won't say it.

I honestly don't know how encryption of text messages works or what end to end protection entails, but I do know all those phones were built in China.

So are you gonna fear The CCP? Obviously, China is such a pathetic insecure country they need to know everything everyone says.

I can see why with the hardball with China, especially the app and microchip related export embargo.

Time to stop letting China do China.

Another version of me would focus on the constant call to embrace 'encrypt everything' as a way of life.
But this version of me recalls that this alarming "breach" was discovered in August 2024... and I suspect they "knew" about Salt Typhoon even before that.

It's amazing how DHS keeps the 'fear' factor going as if to maintain 'unease' as a perpetual flavor of communicating online.
No one knows the hardware as well as those who actually make it.  Of course they can exploit it better than most anyone else.

This must be more 'baggage' to bring into the upcoming row over tariffs...  or, I'm just being overly cynical.
I just found a related article... US recommends encrypted messaging as Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks