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This is a real old story. Was fleshed out in German and Swiss media in 1994: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_A
by notlukesky 7y ago
This is a real old story. Was fleshed out in German and Swiss media in 1994:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
And there were many suspicions going even back to a “tell all” by Ronald Reagan
- schoen 7y agoI thought so too, at first, but the new information is not just that some Crypto AG products were somehow compromised for some customers (widely reported since the 1990s), but that the company was literally owned by the BND and CIA. Not in a metaphorical sense of owned.
- jojo2000 7y agoWell, at least now we know it's widespread [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
- jonathanstrange 7y agoThis is also well known for several decades. I'd be more interested in hearing from a whistleblower whether someone runs the shell company behind VeraCrypt. DGSE?
- secfirstmd 7y agoHave we found out anything more about the people behind it recently? It's been a question I've been pondering for awhile. I know this was mentioned in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693073 I've often thought an interesting place for an intelligence agency to place or recruit a source would be in a code review organisation. There are a couple of high profile ones that do a lot of work on open source projects. Let's be honest, very few people have the time, energy and skills to review a project independently of this. Of course there comes a point where too much tinfoil makes the hat fall off.