The fun part is they don’t know the extent of the comprise or how long it has been going on.
What happened is that CISA recently published a report stating that they think a lot of US telecommunications equipment has been compromised. It isn’t a one time breach. They know that China has control over a unspecified amount of critical components. The malware China is using is extremely complex and very hard if not completely impossible to detect. China is very good at covering there tracks so even getting a sample of Malware is hard.
Because of all this, CISA is now recommending that people use encrypted messagers.
So what would be an encrypted messenger? Telegram or a Matrix app like Element? Asking cuz I’ve been kinda hinting to my friends that maybe we should move away from Facebook Messenger, but all we do is share memes and YouTube videos… Occasionally we’ll fuck with their stupid AI and make it write all responses in cuneiform or call everyone “shitass”
Edit: I can’t spell for shit
Matrix is not always encrypted.
Signal, Simplex chat or any other well vetted messager. Avoid Telegram as it isn’t encrypted and is tied to Russia.
Whut? When is matrix not encrypted somtetimes? Genuine question - I’m a matrix newbie and i thought that all was encrypted was the whole point O.o