FBI warns Americans to keep their text messages secure: What to know
Why I developed ICESaturn by working for Echelon in the 1990s: "Good article. The fact is China is just accessing our surveillance system. I use this as the timeline, so assume China has had access since 2015: Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. One 5 Year Plan. What changed in TWO 5 year plans of access to STUXNET? BRICS declared WW2 AGAINST NAZIS AGAIN. Why WW3? TWO 5 YEARS "to surveil communications and metadata for lots of people. And it seems like the [hackers'] focus is primarily Washington, D.C.""
December 17, 20245:00 AM ET
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The FBI and other agencies are encouraging people to use end-to-end encryption, citing what they say is a sustained hacking operation linked to China. In this 2021 photo, a smartphone's screen shows messaging apps including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.
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It's not often that a piece of FBI advice triggers a Snopes fact check. But the agency's urgent message this month to Americans, often summarized as "stop texting," surprised many consumers.
The warning from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) highlighted vulnerabilities in text messaging systems that millions of Americans use every day.
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