FBI suggests use of encrypted messaging apps while US faces huge cyberattack from China
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say that Americans should use encrypted apps such as iMessage and FaceTime to be safe from foreign hackers.
It’s an about-face for the FBI, which has for years demanded that Apple allow the agency unencrypted access to Messages. The new warning comes in the face of what it and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) say is China’s ongoing Salt Typhoon hack.
“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,” Jeff Greene, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the CISA, told NBC News in a press call. “Even if the adversary is able to intercept the data, if it is encrypted, it will make it impossible.”
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