Tuesday, 11 February 2020
quote [ U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets. ]
Long article. Rather impressive feat
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XregnaR said @ 8:43pm GMT on 12th Feb
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The timing of this story breaking and the Huawei story CAN'T be a coincidence.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 8:48pm GMT on 12th Feb
I've been saying for years that everyone should assume that all their electronic communications are monitored.
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CIA said @ 9:25pm GMT on 12th Feb
And reading transcripts of it for the eighth time since 2010 is a wee bit monotonous.
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rylex said @ 9:48pm GMT on 11th Feb
nice. posted right before i did.
this is some seriously fucked up shit. good bye future relations with countries who thought we could be trusted. #trustnoone |
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:22pm GMT on 12th Feb
I don't think anyone trusted us.
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endopol said @ 4:20pm GMT on 12th Feb
Yeah, I think it was already expected at the time that everyone was trying to intercept messages from everyone else. The lesson here was, don’t trust commercial closed-source crypto.
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endopol said @ 4:37pm GMT on 12th Feb
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Also, don’t trust Ronald Reagan with your secrets.
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