FBI’s Wiretap Shitshow: When The Spies Get Spied Upon

Well, well, well. The Federal Bureau of Incompetence just had their precious surveillance infrastructure bent over a barrel and fucked raw by unknown hackers. Turns out the DCIN (Digital Collection System Network)—the very same pipeline these surveillance-happy bastards use to Hoover up court-authorized wiretaps from telecom companies—is about as secure as a screen door on a fucking submarine.

For years, these wankers have been crying like spoiled toddlers about “going dark” and demanding encryption backdoors so they can snoop on your grandmother’s cookie recipes. Meanwhile, their own crown jewel of domestic spying has been sitting there wide open, probably protected by a password like “FBI123!” or some similarly brain-dead credentials that a caffeinated hamster could crack.

This system requires telecommunications companies to maintain special equipment that feeds data directly into the FBI’s gaping maw. So not only did the feds fuck up their own security, but they’ve mandated that private companies install these vulnerable shitboxes on their networks too. It’s the cybersecurity equivalent of forcing everyone to leave their spare keys under the doormat, then leaving your own front door wide open with a neon sign flashing “FREE SECRETS AND DONUTS.”

Now they’re “investigating,” which in government-speak means some poor bastard is currently explaining to a purple-faced Director why the secure database containing sensitive wiretap data has more holes than a colander and is probably leaking secrets to every intelligence service from Moscow to Beijing. The irony is thicker than the manual they’ll write explaining why this definitely isn’t their fault and why they need another billion dollars to fix it.

Maybe—just fucking maybe—these idiots will learn that building centralized surveillance systems with security held together by duct tape and prayers is a shit idea. But who am I kidding? They’ll probably just classify the incident report and demand more power to spy on the rest of us incompetent civilians.

Read the original clusterfuck here

Reminds me of the time I convinced the PFY that the server room CCTV was “AI-enhanced” and monitoring his productivity in real-time. I looped footage of him mining for nose gold while simultaneously remote-administering his coffee machine to deliver triple espressos every twelve minutes. When Security reviewed the logs for a “breach,” all they found was 4K footage of him excavating nasal cavities for six hours straight while the UPS systems melted down. They didn’t find it nearly as hilarious as I did when I set it as the screensaver for the quarterly board meeting.

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