Hacker News with Generative AI: Government Surveillance

Australia increasingly hostile toward secure messaging apps (theguardian.com)
The founder of an encrypted messaging app who left Australia for Switzerland after police unexpectedly visited an employee’s home says he had left because of Australia’s “hostile” stance against developers building privacy-focused apps.

Australia, Privacy, Encryption, Government Surveillance

10 points by dankotanko1599 2 days ago | 1 comments

Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs? (nakedcapitalism.com)
Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted.

Privacy, Digital ID, Government Surveillance, Australia

56 points by hackandthink 2 days ago | 46 comments

Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys" (eff.org)
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this: The Wall Street Journal reported on a major breach of U.S. telecom systems attributed to a sophisticated Chinese-government backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon.

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking, Telecom

86 points by Sami_Lehtinen 35 days ago | 8 comments

India shuts down the internet far more than any other country (restofworld.org)
India has been a leader in internet shutdowns, by a huge margin, for nearly a decade, according to data shared by digital rights watchdog Access Now.

India, Internet Shutdowns, Censorship, Digital Rights, Government Surveillance

8 points by Brajeshwar 40 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about backdoors for law enforcement (9to5mac.com)
It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to access systems run by three of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US.

Cybersecurity, Apple, Government Surveillance, China

13 points by bentocorp 44 days ago | 4 comments

Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems (arstechnica.com)
Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking, Telecommunications

6 points by thunderbong 44 days ago | 0 comments

Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems (securityaffairs.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Telecom, Hacking, Government Surveillance

18 points by janandonly 44 days ago | 2 comments

Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems (arstechnica.com)
Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Cybersecurity, Hacking, Telecommunications, Government Surveillance

6 points by pseudolus 45 days ago | 0 comments

China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (pluralistic.net)
State-affiliated Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others; they entered their networks and spent months intercepting US traffic – from individuals, firms, government officials, etc – and they did it all without having to exploit any code vulnerabilities. Instead, they used the back door that the FBI requires every carrier to furnish:

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, Telecommunications, Hacking, China

33 points by ColinWright 45 days ago | 4 comments

Government Wiretaps in U.S. Internet Providers Infiltrated by Chinese Hackers (vulnu.com)
U.S. spying on it's citizens and China taking advantage of that backdoor for months before anyone realizing.

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking

7 points by asasidh 46 days ago | 0 comments

Government Wiretaps in U.S. Internet Providers Infiltrated by Chinese Hackers (vulnu.com)

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking

11 points by pr337h4m 46 days ago | 0 comments

Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition (therecord.media)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (UCCR) on Thursday released a report which asserts that three federal agencies’ use of facial recognition technology (FRT) is deeply concerning, not sufficiently standardized and not transparent enough.

Civil Rights, Facial Recognition, Government Surveillance, Technology

182 points by leotravis10 62 days ago | 145 comments

Exclusive – Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (wsj.com)

Telegram, Government Surveillance, Social Media, Russia

12 points by zhengiszen 84 days ago | 1 comments

Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (wsj.com)

Telegram, Government Surveillance, Technology, Russia

16 points by marban 85 days ago | 2 comments

Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message (theintercept.com)

Security, Privacy, WhatsApp, Government Surveillance

35 points by jbegley 183 days ago | 10 comments

Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps (gizmodo.com)