FBI Official Reluctantly Touts Encryption Since US Telecom Providers Are Still Compromised By Chinese Hackers

Thanks to government-mandated backdoors in US telecom/broadband services, the FBI — at least in the form of an official who refused to identify themself — has had to recommend (albeit extremely half-heartedly) that encrypted communications are perhaps the only thing keeping phone owners from being actively surveilled by Chinese hackers. The news of a massive […]