{"id":419,"date":"2024-10-08T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=419"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:06:10","slug":"china-possibly-hacking-us-lawful-access-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/china-possibly-hacking-us-lawful-access-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"China Possibly Hacking US \u201cLawful Access\u201d Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/cybersecurity\/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b\">reporting<\/a>&nbsp;that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law\u2014CALEA\u2014since 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a weird story. The first line of the article is: \u201cA cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers.\u201d This implies that the attack wasn\u2019t against the broadband providers directly, but against one of the intermediary companies that sit between the government CALEA requests and the broadband providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/10\/china-possibly-hacking-us-lawful-access-backdoor.html\">China Possibly Hacking US \u201cLawful Access\u201d Backdoor &#8211; Schneier on Security<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp;is&nbsp;reporting&nbsp;that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law\u2014CALEA\u2014since 1994. It\u2019s a weird story. The first line of the article is: \u201cA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,13,45],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-31","tag-china","tag-initial-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}