China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House Chinese cyberspies recorded "very senior" US political figures' calls, according to White House security boss Anne Neuberger. Neuberger, America's deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, spoke at the Manama Dialogue regional security conference over the weekend. During the Bahrain event, she told …
Maybe the Huawei kit was actually really secure
No 'maybe' about it. That was confirmed by agencies in multiple countries (including GCHQ), so the US eventually ended up having to bully nations into removing Huawei anyway - Huawei having the mere temerity to be years ahead of US companies in 5G could not be tolerated.
That whole commercial capitalist competition thing they so go on about only applies if a US company can be up front. Otherwise it's blackmail and trade restrictions..
Really? I suggest your English reading compensation is not sufficient for this level of trolling operation.
The report contains such gems as:-
"poor software engineering and cyber security processes lead to security and quality issues, including vulnerabilities"
"the increasing number and severity of vulnerabilities discovered is of particular concern".
"If an attacker has knowledge of these vulnerabilities and sufficient access to exploit them, they may be able to affect the operation of a UK network, in some cases causing it to cease operating correctly,"
And there are many, many more.
It's been broken for decades.
The US has known it has been broken for decades. The US government has held many hearings on it being broken for decades.
The US likes that it has been broken for decades - else they'd have done something about it. As would many other countries.
Hoisted by your own r'tard and whatnot.
(Also something something China's grip on the ITU).
SS7 is a world standard, updating it would be a massive undertaking. I imagine there are some efforts working towards that, but the need to maintain backwards compatibility would limit the ability to get rid of it entirely for a long long time.
Anyway SS7 has nothing to do with this attack. It was because US law required telcos to have a way for law enforcement to tap calls and it is that system was compromised.
Maybe read some telecom licenses? The ability to provide legal intercept is a standard requirement of every telecoms license I've read (and I've read a few, not exactly the most fun part of my past life), it's a mandatory requirement.
Where that comes off the rails (and why you get this recurring backdoor demand from idiots) is that this is pretty much made pointless by encryption. A voice call? Yup, that's an open door once intercept has been set up from inside the system (and a telecoms operator charges for that so it's not as random and frivolously abused as you'd think). Fax was also easy. Encrypted comms? Fat chance, unless the encryption provider is not that diligent or a setup by law enforcement.
Not quite sure where I'd place SkyECC in this context.
As others said, why are they having sensitive calls in the open?
Surely those that need to can be issued with secure phones? Then if they talk about sensitive matters to people without secure devices, the question is why are they. Aren't these people subject to the same laws and regulations as other government workers?
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