# U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack

<https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-americans-use-encrypted-apps-cyberattack-rcna182694>

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## What Jamie wrote

Wow, this is wild. 

> 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 telecommunications systems free of interlopers. Officials had told NBC News that China hacked AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies to spy on customers.

For sure we should be using end-to-end encrypted solutions anyway. iMessage is. Otherwise use [Signal](https://signal.org). Also wee [Gruber writeup](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/04/us-official-urge-use-of-e2ee).

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