Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies
washingtonpost.comUsing backdoors the US government forced the carriers to add.
I suppose the question is are you in the 0.00001% of the population anyone would care about?
This article is full of coulds and mights. It's reds under the beds all over again.
Finally, someone's paying attention to what I say!
Be sure to give them a good show!
Remember this the next time China whines about sovereignty and non-interference.
I'm genuinely less concerned about this, than I am about American Law Enforcement reading my texts.
As an American living in America, the Chinese government doesn't have the power to imprison me, to credibly accuse me of crimes, to confiscate my property. The American one does.
Maybe for American politicians, or other Americans in a position of power - or ones who hold Chinese citizenship, or travel to China often - this is a concern. For me and most of my neighbors, this is just flat-out not any more of a concern than a hundred other things.
Those Americans with power have influence over your life, and now China has influence over them.
That's true - but they're already targets for Chinese espionage. This just another vector. And once that I can't do much about this on a personal level.
They might blackmail you to get at their higher level targets. Still not much you can do about it, unless you work at AT&T or Verizon or Lumen, or you report the blackmail to the FBI, something most people probably would be extremely uncomfortable doing given our security services tend to suspect anyone who reports anything to them as the first prime suspect. Maybe there is a statistical reason for that, but it also deters any cooperation. And going through channels often is blocked by business/profit concerns. Espionage probably often happens through relatives and friends of VIP's, though that's a guess.
Strange though that the WP which is lead by jeff Bezos publishes such an article shortly before the elections. Why Bezos and Musk are pro Trump? I think its the promise thrue Trump that sanctions against China will be implemented. Mh...
Now I wonder if Bezos have interest in pushing articles like this.