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    What the article DOESN’T say: The way they accessed these telecom networks was through a backdoor INSTALLED by US Intelligence agencies.

    This is the reason why you don’t fucking put backdoors in your code/software/hardware. Security advocates consistently say “don’t fucking do that because it’ll be discovered and exploited by bad actors”…and yet…

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      3 hours ago

      What the article DOESN’T say

      Well it’s a USA propaganda source. Ofc they hide facts in service of hegemony. They have spent the past year pushing disinformation in support of genocide. They lie about everything.

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    11 hours ago

    “We’ve done nothing to prevent it and we are absolutely stunned that it happened”

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    7 hours ago

    Anyone else remember when China threw a hissy fit about western countries prohibiting Huawei from competing for the contracts for the mobile phone system backend?