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https://apple.news/AIlfmUYYEQeiR9bgNnXCKkA

https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2025/10/29/halloween-treats

 

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Discarding the CALEA declaration and proposed rules would eliminate the U.S. government’s most substantial response to the widespread cybersecurity failures in the U.S. telecom industry that China’s Salt Typhoon hacking campaign exposed in late 2024. In an espionage operation widely considered one of the most damaging cyber incidents in U.S. history, China-linked hackers penetrated U.S. telecom networks and accessed information about federal wiretaps, the call recordings of high-profile Americans and more than a million other people’s call and text metadata.

What could go wrong ..

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As with most things this era, to understand this move, just ask and answer the question "who in the regime/closely aligned with the regime will benefit and profit from this, and how?"  Once you answer that, you'll understand exactly why this is happening.  You don't have to bother wondering whether "this is good policy," or "is it good for the people?"  Those are not in play in any way.  Just find who benefits, and it will be clear.

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

As with most things this era, to understand this move, just ask and answer the question "who in the regime/closely aligned with the regime will benefit and profit from this, and how?"  Once you answer that, you'll understand exactly why this is happening.  You don't have to bother wondering whether "this is good policy," or "is it good for the people?"  Those are not in play in any way.  Just find who benefits, and it will be clear.

I’m sure Palantir will somehow benefit, thus giving even more money to Trump’s backers. 

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Immigrants are bad but Russia, China, NORK, Iran, Israel, and any country with a bunch of bored 20 yr olds with computers hacking every phone is the small price for owning the libs. 

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Ehh, who are we kidding. They have already gone through the back door and remodeled the house to build even more backdoors that we don't know about. This just leaves the front door unlocked which doesn't really mean shit.

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CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct lawful interception of communication by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in capabilities for targeted surveillance, allowing federal agencies to selectively wiretap any telephone traffic; it has since been extended to cover broadband Internet and VoIP traffic. Some government agencies argue that it covers mass surveillance of communications rather than just tapping specific lines and that not all CALEA-based access requires a warrant.

Journalists and technologists have characterised the CALEA-mandated infrastructure as government backdoors.[1][2] In 2024, the U.S. government realized that China had been tapping communications in the U.S. using that infrastructure for months, or perhaps longer.[3]

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The cybersecurity requirement under the Biden administration was a response to the Chinese hacking campaigns. The declaration was not prescriptive and amounted to "do something!" Which is fine because that's how these things get started. 

The evolution of NERC CIP over the last twenty years is a good example of how this things are supposed to work. CIP started off as a "do something" declaration and initially rolled out a "best effort" requirement similar to the FCC one. Overtime a framework and standards were established based on NIST until eventually a mature security framework was established. 

From what I understand, CSRIC was following the NERC process by utilizing NIST to build industry specific guidelines and standards. USTelcom has also been pushing the FCC to adopt NIST standards but for some weird reason the whole thing is being thrown in the trash.

I've seen NERC CIP evolve from a vague guideline to a very prescriptive and mature framework and I do find the maturation process pretty impressive. There are regular iterations of more prescriptive controls and guidelines to adapt to non-standard situations but this took a couple of decades to accomplish. Really, things didn't pick up speed until the last 12 years. It took a long time to lay the ground work.

You don't scrap an effort like this without an alternative plan. These things really do take years to be developed, by ending the cybersecurity declaration Carr is putting the U.S. behind schedule when it's already way behind schedule. 

 

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10 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

It’s weird. It’s almost like every decision made by the regime benefits China everyone but every day Americans in some way

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The US Government is absolutely hostile to the average American

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7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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The US Government is absolutely hostile to the average American

I don't think it's hostile nearly as much as it's just completely ambivalent and indifferent to about 90% of Americans. 

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Just now, SydneyCarton said:

I don't think it's hostile nearly as much as it's just completely ambivalent and indifferent to about 90% of Americans. 

No I think they legitimately hate those 90% of Americans.  

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