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Amid the Salt Typhoon hack, the U.S. government wants you and me to go encrypted.

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Remember the Salt Typhoon hacks? Basically, U.S. intelligence officials allege that Chinese hackers known as Salt Typhoon have borrowed their way into U.S. telecom systems.

Like, they're listening to our calls, reading our texts. The FBI and CISA have given U.S. Teleco's best practices to harden their systems against attacks, but senior U.S. officials say

salt typhoon hackers remain on their networks. They're still there. So now, U.S. officials are

recommending that all Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications

stay hidden from foreign hackers. Basically, if you're on AT&T, Verizon, etc., they're telling you and me to harden our

systems. That's somewhat extraordinary, quoting NBC News. The hacking campaign nicknamed Salt Typhoon by

Microsoft is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been

fully remediated. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable

for declaring the country's telecommunication systems free of interlopers. Officials had told NBC

that China hacked AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies to spy on customers. In the call Tuesday

to officials, a senior FBI official who asked not to be named, and Jeff Green,

Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,

both recommended using encrypted messaging apps to Americans who want to minimize the chances

of China's intercepting their communications. Our suggestion, what we have told folks internally,

is not new here. Encryption is your friend, whether it's on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted

voice communication. Even if the adversary is able to intercept the data, if it is encrypted,

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