So the US has effectively exported this deliberate insecurity to the whole planet - and used it to screw around with *Olympic bids*, the most penny-ante bullshit imaginable.
Now Chinese-sponsored hackers with cool names like "Salt Typhoon" are traipsing around inside US telecoms infrastructure, using the back doors the FBI insisted would be safe.
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On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel *The Bezzle* at Eagle Eye Books:
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:
https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/
And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:
https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
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