Collaborate Disseminate
The annual defense spending bill contains money the FCC has sought to use to reimburse telecommunications carriers for removing Chinese equipment.
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It would go beyond the FCC’s own proposal to regulate telecommunications carriers under federal wiretapping law.
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The proposed rules are a response to Salt Typhoon’s breach of at least eight U.S. telecom companies.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.
It’s a weird story. The first line of the article is: “A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers.” This implies that the attack wasn’t against the broadband providers directly, but against one of the intermediary companies that sit between the government CALEA requests and the broadband providers…
Continue reading China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good. Continue reading Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea
The Department of Justice is appealing Apple’s victory in the New York iPhone case. Continue reading The Convoluted Logic Behind Apple’s ‘Obstruction’ of Law Enforcement
A New York judge ruled earlier this week that the government can not force Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking an encrypted iPhone. Continue reading The OTHER iPhone unlocking case – Judge sides with Apple