Proton email vs unseen code#
Proton email vs unseen tv#

I find it slightly curious that it was the ZDF (Mainz) who got hold of this story. The title sound more admirative than critical. In the concluding remarks by the moderator (not in the above clip), it was announced that a special documentary with the title “Geheimaktion Rubikon - Der größte Coup des BND” will be broadcast in the evening prime-time on 18 March 2020.

I suppose that it was produced because of the immediate WaPo disclosure. This piece seemed to me to have something of a stopgap character in view of the importance of the subject. This expression however wasn’t his invention, but was created by Bismarck. One interesting item I haven’t seen in the WaPo article was that the profits accrued from Crypto AG flowed into directly into the BND budget beyond the control of parliament. This affair also helps explain the feeling after the Snowden scandal that the German secret services appeared to be more in the service of US TLAs than of their own government, and that the latter were entirely OK with that… The more Germany-specific comments showed, if this was all necessary, the continued moral turpitude of successive federal governments, who were perfectly informed of the horror inflicted by many despots in their export markets.

Proton email vs unseen tv#

Low-density TV delivery means that the contents falls way short of the WaPo article, but the essential points are conveyed. The ZDF ran several short segments in Tuesday’s news bulletins, which was completed in the evening by a longer ~13 minute piece in the public affairs program “Frontal 21”. Tags: backdoors, CIA, cryptography, espionage

Proton email vs unseen code#

The operation, known first by the code name “Thesaurus” and later “Rubicon,” ranks among the most audacious in CIA history.ĮDITED TO ADD: More news articles. It describes how the United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. It traces the origin of the venture as well as the internal conflicts that nearly derailed it. The account identifies the CIA officers who ran the program and the company executives entrusted to execute it. The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post and ZDF, a German public broadcaster, in a joint reporting project. What is new is the formerly classified documents describing the details: We have long known that Crypto AG was backdooring crypto equipment for the Americans. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages. They were owned by the CIA:īut what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II.