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A stainless steel, riveted cubic vault. On one face is a giant vault door surmounted by the FBI logo. On the other face is a rusty screen door with the words NO ENTRY on it; through the screen we see a Chinese flag. Image: Kris Duda, modified https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahorcado/5433669707/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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A stainless steel, riveted cubic vault. On one face is a giant vault door surmounted by the FBI logo. On the other face is a rusty screen door with the words NO ENTRY on it; through the screen we see a Chinese flag. Image: Kris Duda, modified https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahorcado/5433669707/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 00:31:04 JST Cory Doctorow

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:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=C5ywbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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