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‘Major incident’: China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations (edition.cnn.com)

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The US Treasury Department notified lawmakers on Monday that a China state-sponsored actor infiltrated Treasury workstations in what officials are describing as a “major incident.”

[...] ATreasury official said it was informed by a third-party software service provider on December 8 that a threat actor used a stolen key to remotely access certain Treasury workstations and unclassified documents.

“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,” Aditi Hardikar, assistant secretary for management at the US Treasury, wrote in the letter.

A Treasury spokesperson said in a statement to CNN that the compromised service has been taken offline and officials are working with law enforcement and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

“There is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury systems or information,” the Treasury spokesperson said.

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is a shame then that very few countries can claim to actually be democratic then, since representative democracy is not true democracy.

It is closer to the ideal perhaps, but it is not truly for the people in a way that matters. Only direct democracies where people vote on policies etc are actual democracies, representative democracies tend to teater on that autocratic/totalitarian edge where the elected and unelected (at least by the people) representatives/government often enact policies and laws not in line with what people actually want, especially in first past the post systems with effectively only two parties.

There are still many problems even with direct democracy in this current system as capitalism allows those with the most money and to lie and influence, however, that's true of representative democracy also, if not moreso in the case of bribes and lobbying.