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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 222 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@return2ozma @technology
10 years ago, the Feds wanted backdoors to all of phones so they could read all of our text messages. Now, the Feds want everyone not to use software that has backdoors so the Chinese cannot read our phones. The Feds don't want competition.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The backdoors they use are there for freedom and justice, the backdoors the "others" use are tools of evil and security risks!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

"They're the same picture"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. They were so arrogant they never thought it would happen to us. After all, we are in charge of our own networks so why would we expect the enemy to be at the gates? Let's make those gates out of cardboard so it's easier to spy on everyone.

Of course then you have things like CALEA mandating a back door, you have cheap telecom companies that will happily buy cheap lowest bidder Chinese hardware and install it "everywhere* without concern for security (after all, it's not their data being stolen) and now the enemy isn't just at the gates but inside the walls.

A decade ago, making sure the feds could read everyone's mail was the national security priority. Suddenly when the Chinese can read everyone's mail, good security is the national security priority.

It's too bad there was no way to predict this in advance. Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Oh it turns out we needed NSA to do its actual fucking job after all rather than holding onto exploits for the surveillance state.

Now — for the second time — we have an adversarial administration eager to weaponize government departments while Americans are vulnerable. Why? Because America is the good guys and would never abuse its extrajudicial powers (say, by detaining, rendering and torturing Americans with names similar to those of POIs.)

We could have had twenty-four years of robust communications security developments if NSA didnt sell the public out like Judas.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

id take email Authentication over sms Authentication if there was only them 2 let me use my 2facter app for the love of god plz i hate how banks use sms its like come on man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh man it sure would be nice if the feds had the power to regulate something like this /s

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (8 children)

They did. That's the reason for this hack, they wanted Lawful Interception, they got their backdoor. It's what professionals and privacy advocates said all along, if it exists it will be abused.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This isn’t a hack in the way you’re thinking of, nor is it a product of government mandated interception, or a back door. The salt typhoon event you’re referring to is nothing more than the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger problem, which is abuse of the dated SS7 system we’ve known about for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why the hell is this in 4K HDR?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Only the best for the worst hack in history.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

of course it is. forced 2fa BY SMS OF ALL THINGS is one of the stupidest ideas

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume businesses only jumped at the chance to enable SMS 2FA to get their greedy little fingers on our phone numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It was the simplest/cheapest form of 2FA to implement. Grandma will never understand how to setup TOTP.

Capitalism requires regulations, otherwise it will ALWAYS do what is cheapest or most profitable, regardless of how dangerous or destructive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Even stupider is supporting hardware keys for MFA, but having SMS fallback which can't be disabled (looking at you, Vanguard). I'd much rather have email as my second factor than SMS, and I literally abandoned a bank (Ally) for removing email as an alternative to SMS.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Hollywood hacking has nothing on real hacking it seems.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Been saying that for years. It's about damn time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (11 children)

SMS spoofing and SIM swapping have been around for ages. It was never secure and that's always been known. The number of companies that rely on it despite sending me a zillion other fucking useless emails is too damn high! Email, or better yet, an authenticator app, are far more secure. Not perfect, but better.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

in other news grass is green

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank god, give me my HMAC hash please.

Nothing more terrifying than losing your phone number these days because of all the accounts tied to it via 2FA.

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