Salt Typhoon— Xi Is Reading your DMs

[956 Worldwide 35,516]

You need to have two-factor authentication to order a chicken sandwich through the app but it turns out US telecoms only have cyber-security “recommendations.”  The Chinese are also still watching me type this real time.

 

 

[Brisketexan 106,625]

1) Pretty sure the "Salt Typhoon" is an appetizer at a Guy Fieri joint.

2) If Chinese hackers are subjected to reading the private communications of Surly posters......that is how America wins.  As their eyes melt, and their brains short circuit, and they try to understand why "muledick" is the answer, no matter what the question is....we will have taken down the Chinese cyberwarriors without firing a shot.

You're welcome, America.

[InkaUtexas 26,800]

Yeah, saw this earlier. And early this morning a few friends in sensitive jobs had their proton mails hacked. Sent out files to download to their address books.

I noticed the email was a bit off and called a friend. he was unaware it had happened.

Fun times.

[Trey3216 15,450]

14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

1) Pretty sure the "Salt Typhoon" is an appetizer at a Guy Fieri joint.

2) If Chinese hackers are subjected to reading the private communications of Surly posters......that is how America wins.  As their eyes melt, and their brains short circuit, and they try to understand why "muledick" is the answer, no matter what the question is....we will have taken down the Chinese cyberwarriors without firing a shot.

You're welcome, America.

At a Guy Fieri joint???? The Salt Typhoon is positioned next to the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral 

[gofuckyourself 8,939]

1 minute ago, Trey3216 said:

At a Guy Fieri joint???? The Salt Typhoon is positioned next to the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral 

Mike Elko has entered the chat.

Can we get Brett Favre or some other bozo to start sending out dick pics again? That'll stop this.

[Chooky 13,337]

They're gonna see how often I have to spell check the word diarrhea. I've probably been comparing things to diarrhea too often. 

[HOOKEM4 5,151]

Wait, so they intercepted all the dick pics I have sent to Salma Hayek. That explains why she has never responded. Fucking assholes.

[atomheartbevo 90,548]

33 minutes ago, Chooky said:

They're gonna see how often I have to spell check the word diarrhea. I've probably been comparing things to diarrhea too often. 

To be fair, diarhea has to be one of the top mispelled words.

[twosheds 378]

To be fair, diarhea has to be one of the top mispelled words.

*diarrhea

[Captainant 28,387]

The irony of this thread title is that DM's are waaaaayyyyyyyy more secure than the SMS text messaging that has been penetrated using the same backdoors that exist for the NSA to spy on citizens 

[Kennythetiger 9,584]

I penetrated your mom’s back door. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,619]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

As their eyes melt, and their brains short circuit, and they try to understand why "muledick" is the answer, no matter what the question is....we will have taken down the Chinese cyberwarriors without firing a shot.

 

[Firemans4Horn 18,500]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

To be fair, diarhea has to be one of the top mispelled words.

 

A group of my friends refer to having diarrhea as having “Chan Ho”

 

 

[randomhorn 2,111]

1 hour ago, twosheds said:

*diarrhea

Cha cha cha

[Sawbonz 28,082]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

To be fair, diarhea has to be one of the top mispelled words.

When you’re trying to spell a word that describes a runny turd

[CHIEF 5,201]

Fours old, thinking I have something cool and original? FFFUUUCCCKKK. Surly needs to have a bunch of posters that just do crazy script writing.

CHIEF

[Kel Varnsen 8,682]

4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

When you’re trying to spell a word that describes a runny turd

When you're running down to first and you feel something burst.

[UTPhil2006 3,909]

[Captainant 28,387]

This news broke just before Thanksgiving too, it's surprising that the FBI saying it got more people to pay attention 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/fbi-uncovers-china-hackers-spying-network-targetting-us-telecommunication/5982866/

Funny thing is, they're mainly just collecting metadata on the calls not the content itself. You know, that stuff that the Supreme Court said was honkey dorey until they didn't. Gotta love when those old backdoors turn out to be useful for more than just the """good guys""".

They can snoop in on calls and texts, but they have to be in the right place and time to intercept and MiTM the message. The metadata is persistent though, and is super helpful for informing when they should listen in

Edited December 5 by Captainant

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,856]

First they peed in our Coke, now this?  I say we randomly remove some letters from their alphabet.  

[atomheartbevo 90,548]

6 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

First they peed in our Coke, now this?  I say we randomly remove some letters from their alphabet.  

Would anybody notice?

[tx 3 putt 78,470]

hope they enjoy my dick pics 

[Da Fino 2,820]

I think this is going to a be a much bigger problem soon. I remember thinking during the Ashley Madison (I was in college at the time and had no worries about it) leak how a bunch of families could be ruined with this kind of information and disinformation. I shudder to think what could be done with all of my data that my kids might someday see from some leak.  All you’d have to do is sprinkle a little crack on my data and I could look like a real asshole. Anyway, I don’t like that we are being glib about this stuff. 

Edited December 5 by Da Fino

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,619]

Peace is forgetting all your porn searches.

And not having kids.

Probably.

[atomheartbevo 90,548]

1 hour ago, Da Fino said:

I shudder to think what could be done with all of my data that my kids might someday see from some leak.  All you’d have to do is sprinkle a little crack on my data and I could look like a real asshole. Any, I don’t like that we are being glib about this stuff. 

If you are communicating with people in more than a "casual" manner, whether it be friends, family, lovers, your attorneys, or business associates, you should already be using encrypted apps and email, and you should teach your kids to do the same. 

An email like "don't forget the game is on ABC at 6:30" nobody gives a shit about.  An email to a friend about how you're making money online impersonating Johnny Depp?  Encrypt it!

[Gatorubet 30,631]

1 hour ago, Da Fino said:

I think this is going to a be a much bigger problem soon. I remember thinking during the Ashley Madison (I was in college at the time and had no worries about it) leak how a bunch of families could be ruined with this kind of information and disinformation. I shudder to think what could be done with all of my data that my kids might someday see from some leak.  All you’d have to do is sprinkle a little crack on my data and I could look like a real asshole. Any, I don’t like that we are being glib about this stuff. 

Dude.  We post on Surly.  We are already doomed forever once they read our posts

[F250 29,175]

2 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

 

We used to yell "Shoot the moon!" at Zilker Park whenever cops were walking around while we were smoking weed. Then one of us would yell "The dolphins are in the jacuzzi" and start cracking up. Yeah, I don't think we fooled the cops, they just ignored us.

[Anastasis 23,699]

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

The irony of this thread title is that DM's are waaaaayyyyyyyy more secure than the SMS text messaging that has been penetrated using the same backdoors that exist for the NSA to spy on citizens

 

 

[Da Fino 2,820]

35 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Dude.  We post on Surly.  We are already doomed forever once they read our posts

I’m sure they would hate donkey2fivebana, incredulity and workswithseed also. 

35 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

If you are communicating with people in more than a "casual" manner, whether it be friends, family, lovers, your attorneys, or business associates, you should already be using encrypted apps and email, and you should teach your kids to do the same. 

An email like "don't forget the game is on ABC at 6:30" nobody gives a shit about.  An email to a friend about how you're making money online impersonating Johnny Depp?  Encrypt it!

You think normal encryption will hold up? I don’t. 

[Marshall_Lucky 624]

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

1) Pretty sure the "Salt Typhoon" is an appetizer at a Guy Fieri joint.

 

Edited December 5 by Marshall_Lucky
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