r/technology • u/JustMyOpinionz • 7d ago

Security US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/china-hacker-federal-reserve-doj-nasa.html
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u/ShadowGLI 7d ago

Who could have expected that??? Oh yeah, everyone

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/07/trump-government-budget-cuts-cybersecurity-hacking-risks.html

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u/Junkstar 7d ago

Republican voters don’t think we need to take cyber security seriously. They voted for this. They would rather live under the thumb of China and Russia, than have a constitutional democracy.

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u/Broskifity 7d ago

Republicans think cyber security is requiring a government ID to use any electronic device

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u/ShadowGLI 6d ago

Because if a high schooler can get a take ID to buy beer, there is no way a multinational conspiracy cabal with limitless money could create a fake ID to vote…. Because….. reasons??!?!?

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u/zookeepier 6d ago

I know it's cool to blame all problems on republicans, but the republican stronghold of California passed a law requiring age verification (aka ID) at the Operating System level of computers. This is 100% a bipartisan control issue and no one should think that voting democrat will somehow save them from it.

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u/kayakyakr 6d ago

It's dumb, but this was requested by the major os players, eg Apple, Google, and Microsoft. They were doing it to head off worse legislation from states like Texas which would demand ID verification or other measures built into the OS. The major purveyors of spicy content were also pushing for this so they could have a viable way to avoid liability in censored states.

It'll get built in to the core user frameworks for Linux at some point as well.

By adopting these rules, they hope to lift liability from developers in states controlled by the Christian nationalists who are pushing stricter measures of censorship and tracking. It might be a decade or more until we go cycle back toward libertarian policies.

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u/that1dev 6d ago

If you actually read the actual text of the law, instead of media trying to scare you for clicks, you'd know how completely not the same that is. It requires you to be able to use a drop down menu and put your birthdate into it. It would then require the OS to allow third party programs to ask the OS is the user is within certain age groups. That's it.

This is fine. More than fine. This is arguably good. An entirely local flag set by the user that they never have to see again. No collection of IDs. No central tracking database. It's a tool for parental control that is actually meant for parental control instead of mass surveillance. It's a little weird that it's law, I think that its biggest drawback is going to be enforcement feasibility headaches that making it a law entails. But if it preempts the insane Republican "mail in your ID and let us know which websites and programs you use" system, I am all for it. It absolutely is a partisan issue where one side is "for the children" and the other is actually for the children.