How NSA and GCHQ Spied on the Cold War World

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Post by chrisprice » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

How NSA and GCHQ Spied on the Cold War World
bbc.co.uk

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Post by greenyoda » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 6:30 AM UTC

Broken URL. Looks like it should be: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33676028

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Post by dang » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 6:47 AM UTC

greenyoda wrote: post #2

Broken URL. Looks like it should be: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33676028

Thanks; fixed.

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Post by anemic » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 12:45 PM UTC

It's an amazing find to discover multiple different redacted versions of a single document and to reconstruct the original from these parts.

Very similar to encrypting different data with same key multiple times giving the messages 'depth' that can be exploited.

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Post by bediger4000 » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

Looks like NSA and GCHQ have always had their fingers in every pie they could get to. If I were a customer of Crypto AG, I'd have freaked out on my sales contact a long time ago, and probably not have done business with them, but if I hadn't back then, I certainly would now.

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Post by chinathrow » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

Crypto AG is still so rigged by foreign powers that not even their staff know who owns and control the company.

Source: current Crypto employee.

Go figure.

Re: How NSA and GCHQ Spied on the Cold War World

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Post by Zigurd » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:13 PM UTC

Wasn't this common knowledge since the '80s? And yet Crypto AG is still in business.