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nice. Everybody of course knows (at least deep inside oneself if the one is too obtuse to acknowledge it publicly) that, starting from the ancient times, all the encrypted communication stuff around has always been backdoored, yet seeing actual confirmation is always assuring :

"Others contained clues to a secret trips that Friedman had made to Switzerland, where he helped the agency gain backdoor access into encryption systems that a Swiss company was selling to foreign countries."



Switzerland, crypto devices headed to foreign countries, NSA backdoor? Must be Crypto AG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Back-doored_machines)


double nice:

"The owner(s) of Crypto AG are unknown, supposedly even to the managers of firm, and they hold their ownership through bearer shares"


They also have no money issues, ever. No, no citation available, sorry.


I wrote about this here, see the section on CryptoAG. I provide quotes and direct sources in the footnotes.

A Brief History of NSA Backdoors. http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/70646748808/a-brief-hist...


Do you have examples of backdoored encryption from ancient times? I'm curious what you mean.




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