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Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? (1998)
- Ansil849 7y agoSubmitting this old piece to highlight the fact that the revelations about Crypto AG being an intelligence front were already known more than 20 years ago, and are only now coming back into the public consciousness after the recent WaPo story [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-... Edited to add: Here is a very abridged timeline of major news revelations around Crypto AG prior to the WaPo story earlier this week: [1992] Crypto AG employee Hans Buehler is arrested in Iran on espionage charges [1]. [1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/03/30/Iran-arrests-Swiss-man-for-espionage/7727701931600/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/03/30/Iran-arrests-Swiss-m...) [1995] Scott Shane and Tom Bowman publish an expose in the Baltimore Sun, describing internal company documents which reveal NSA's relation to Crypto AG [2]. [2] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-1995344001-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-19953440... [1998] Wayne Madsen writes a detailed piece on the NSA/Crypto AG relation for Covert Action Quarterly [3]. [3] http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/ http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/ [2015] Gordon Corera at the BBC publishes a story detailing newly-declassified internal NSA memos which document the NSA/Crypto AG relation. [4] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028
- whatshisface 7y agoThe WaPo story talked at length about the early media attention. What distinguishes the old information from the new information is that now we have documentation from the CIA itself.
- dang 7y agoThe related WaPo article was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963