> The story of Altamides dates back to the early 2000s, when former *Siemens* engineer Josef Fuchs recognised a critical vulnerability in the global telecom net

> The story of Altamides dates back to the early 2000s, when former *Siemens* engineer Josef Fuchs recognised a critical vulnerability in the global telecom network. By exploiting (...) Reminder that around the same time a joint venture of Nokia+Siemens had been developing and deploying deep packet inspection and surveillance systems in Egypt and Iran. They got called out by human rights organisations and posted an "oops sorry\" press release.