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Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, discusses the report that Chinese hackers infiltrated Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer on ‘The Ingraham Angle. ’the Investigatory Powers Act, which critics say could make U.S. companies weaken encryption or create"backdoors" weaken encryption or create"backdoors" while preventing firms from disclosing requests without U.K. government approval.
JD VANCE 'DIRECTLY' CONVINCED UK TO DROP APPLE BACKDOOR DATA DEMAND, PROTECTING AMERICANS' RIGHTS: US OFFICIAL"A backdoor compelled by one ally becomes a standing invitation to Beijing, Moscow and Tehran so once one government can quietly compel access, others will demand the same, and a one-off concession hardens into a permanent vulnerability," he warned. , a June 5 letter sent by Jordan to U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, showed the Trump ally had called for a review.
The report said Mahmood's decision had been to deny a U.S. company permission to speak with Congress about an alleged encryption backdoor notice. Jordan was also said to have warned that a lack of bilateral coordination raised concerns about the"trust and effective partnership between our two countries.
" "Five Eyes works because every partner trusts the others not to weaken the systems they all depend on," Badger, co-author of""If Washington also concludes that U.K. surveillance powers could inadvertently expose Americans and American officials to espionage, it puts real strain on the relationship and makes future cooperation on intelligence and cyber harder to sustain. "The Thames House headquarters of MI5 in London on Nov. 18, 2025.
Britain's domestic security service has warned of growing state-backed threats, including more than 20 Iran-backed plots uncovered in the UK, as lawmakers consider new legislation targeting foreign state-linked groups. On the encryption issue, Badger noted that mainstream encrypted platforms now function as"de facto infrastructure for sensitive communication well beyond the consumer market.
" "Any access point built into them becomes a permanent target. It is not a private key the requesting government gets to keep to itself," he said.hundreds of organizations across roughly 80 countries and, through those intrusions, gained access to sensitive communications and networks used by senior Western officials," Badger warned.didn't defeat encryption. They walked straight through the lawful-intercept systems telecom providers had built, reaching the communications of senior officials and even information about surveillance targets.
" CHINESE BIOWEAPON SMUGGLING CASE SHOWS US 'TRAINS OUR ENEMIES,' 'LEARNED NOTHING' FROM COVID: SECURITY EXPERT"The precaution is itself an admission of the threat environment. The working assumption — correctly — is that anything digital taken into China should be treated as potentially compromised.
""This case perfectly underscores the contradiction at the heart of the U.K. Labour government's China policy: chasing positive economic relations and expanded trade with Beijing on one hand, while being forced to take elaborate precautions against a state whose core interests remain fundamentally at odds with its own on the other," Badger said. "You can't simultaneously treat China as a trusted economic partner and a hostile intelligence threat. It's a fundamental contradiction.
The need to use burner phones symbolically underscore this.
" Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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