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Kicking Beijing out of U.S. telco networks is a lot harder than it sounds

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83% Informative

U.S. telcos are still struggling to keep Salt Typhoon hackers out of their networks.

Many of the systems in question are nearly 50 years old and are "never meant for the type of sensitive data and reliance that we have on them right now," an expert said.

The White House confirmed Wednesday that at least eight US telcos have been compromised so far.

VR Score

83

Informative language

82

Neutral language

48

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

61

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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13

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