China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor

30 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by ColinWright
(pluralistic.net)

3 Comments

ChrisArchitect

4 hours ago

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766610

ColinWright

3 hours ago

Yes, submitted chronologically after this, but somehow got the early votes.

Shrug

I've been on this site for some time, and I have finally worked out why I don't understand how things work. It's because it's people who are using it.

And people, even hackers[0], are weird, illogical, random, and unpredictable.

[0] Perhaps especially hackers.

ColinWright

7 hours ago

I see that the story (though not this source) has been submitted before, but there doesn't seem to have been much discussion, so I thought it worth resubmitting, rather than point at other, effectively dead submissions.