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News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort to gather intelligence on Americans.

Security professionals and technologists have for years been sounding the alarm about the security risks of backdoors, because there is no such thing as a "secure backdoor" that can't be abused by malicious actors.

More, by me: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/07/the-30-year-old-internet-backdoor-law-that-came-back-to-bite/