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Comment by croes

9 days ago

You don’t need a backdoor in the encryption if you can backdoor the devices as such.

Crypto AG anyone?

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hedora  9 days ago

In fairness, they backdoored the company, the crypto algorithms and the devices at Crypto AG.

Anyway, there are many more recent examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Don’t get me started on the unnecessary complexity added to TLS.

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