AnonEMouse
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Anyone heard about Crypto AG? Evidently they sold cryptographic devices to governments worldwide with backdoors for the NSA and BND (Germany).
I suspect this is a reason why the US is deathly afraid of Huawei. It only takes one party using compromised equipment to compromise everybody on the channel.
Also makes me wonder how secure anything really is. Is the very public fight between Apple and the US government real or is it just cover to lull the world into thinking their phones are secure? We might find out in another 60 years.
Some background here with links to news articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
"Crypto AG was a Swiss company specialising in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the American CIA and West German intelligence agency BND from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018."
I suspect this is a reason why the US is deathly afraid of Huawei. It only takes one party using compromised equipment to compromise everybody on the channel.
Also makes me wonder how secure anything really is. Is the very public fight between Apple and the US government real or is it just cover to lull the world into thinking their phones are secure? We might find out in another 60 years.
Some background here with links to news articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
"Crypto AG was a Swiss company specialising in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the American CIA and West German intelligence agency BND from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018."