CryptoAG Exposed: How a Fake Company Enabled Global Espionage 🔍

CryptoAG was a Swiss company that sold hardware encryption devices to the world. In the 2010s we found out CryptoAG was owned and operated by the CIA. Since buying CryptoAG through a shell corporation in Luxembourg, the CIA built backdoors into every device sold. For more than 50 years, this gave the CIA nearly full access to all the communications between foreign governments and their ambassadors/diplomats/spys in countries all over world. This was probably the largest known supply chain hack in history, and a case study for cyber security nerds like ya boi
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Resource: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias-audacious-operation-that-gave-them-access-to-state-secrets
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