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Scarmoge posted an update 6 years, 2 months ago
It might prove quite interesting to inquire into the ownership and money trails of ALL encryption and encryption related companies.
Since ML Light got me to thinking about suggestions for alternative phrases and titles … I do appreciate the headline used in this ARS Technica as
it is a play on Victor Kiam’s Remington slogan but in order to keep things “in house” as such 3 letter agencies like to do an alternative suggestion for the
headline here would be …
The Company bought the Company.
For additional enjoyment here … this situation certainly lends itself to an expression in the form of Russell’s Paradox.
… and remember boys and girls if Encryption doesn’t interest you with the right tools …..WE LIKED IT SO MUCH WE BOUGHT THE COMPANY —
For decades, US and Germany owned Swiss crypto company used by 120 countries
Unfettered access to encrypted messages from Iran, Libya, and others.SEAN GALLAGHER – 2/11/2020
Crypto AG, a Swiss cryptographic communications gear company that got its big break building code-making gear for the US Army in World War II, has been a provider of encryption systems for more than 120 countries. And according to a report by The Washington Post and German broadcaster ZDF, the company was owned outright for decades by the Central Intelligence Agency and Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND—allowing the CIA, the National Security Agency, and German intelligence to read the most sensitive communications of practically everyone but the Soviets and Chinese.
Full article at:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-german-intel-owned-swiss-crypto-used-by-dozens-of-countries/
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Some of the best codes are probably still the most old-fashioned: those based on a book known only to the two parties. (Analogue blockchain?)
Encryption scam said to have helped win the Falklands War. Are people still as naive as they were 40 years ago?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1241312/falklands-war-margaret-thatcher-cia-west-german-intelligence
… also of interest here it would seem … Shocked, Shocked I tell you! Cooperation between the CIA and Gehlen Org.? ur … umm … gee … I … uh … the B.N.D.? Absolutely FALSE! No one at this level would ever conceive of doing such a thing for geopolitical gain. What? Yes, Mr. Barnum I’ll be right there. “Power to the Boobousie!”