• Snot Flickerman
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    6 days ago

    We’re not organized because we allowed private corporations to have complete control over our communications systems and then had our government stupidly add backdoors so they could spy on their own citizens.

    A big reason is because people are busy trying to organize on public communications channels.

    Oh yeah and those backdoors got hacked recently. Fuckin whoopee.

    https://theconversation.com/what-is-salt-typhoon-a-security-expert-explains-the-chinese-hackers-and-their-attack-on-us-telecommunications-networks-244473

    Salt Typhoon also compromised the private portals, or backdoors, that telephone companies provide to law enforcement to request court-ordered monitoring of phone numbers pursuant to investigations. This is also the same portal that is used by U.S. intelligence to surveil foreign targets inside the United States.