After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

Opinion coverage of the "Salt Typhoon" campaign: China-backed attackers are reported to have compromised at least nine telecommunications providers, stolen geolocation data on millions of users, and used high-privilege accounts (including one controlling ~100,000 routers). The piece argues this represents a sector-wide security collapse, highlights reuse of long-known attack techniques and living-off-the-land behavior, and calls for immediate forensic mapping and wartime-scale remediation of critical infrastructure.