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A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (www.ethanheilman.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Slowly the world figured out that Crypto AG was not a reliable vendor of cryptographic hardware. In 1986 Reagan tipped off the Libyans that the US could decrypt their communications by talking about information he could only get through Libya decrypts on TV.

“Well . . . “

In 2004 Ahmed Chalabi was accused of selling the Iranians the methods by which the US was breaking their codes. It is speculated that this might have been information on Crypto AG backdoors or weaknesses.

Chalabi is also famous for lying about Iraq’s WMDs.