[liberationtech] Who Needs 'Backdoors' When 'Sidedoors' Are JUST AS Effective?

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

Washington Post (11/2/2020)
‘The intelligence coup of the century’
 -- For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and
adversaries. By Greg Miller (Washington Post) Feb. 11, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

Deutsche Welle (DW 11/2/2020)
Report: US, Germany spied on countries for decades via Swiss encryption firm
Western intelligence acquired top secret information on global
governments through their hidden control of an encryption firm, Crypto
AG, according to media reports. Swiss authorities are investigating the
allegations.
https://www.dw.com/en/report-us-germany-spied-on-countries-for-decades-via-swiss-encryption-firm/a-52344255
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/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil./
///Principal Technologist &/
///Distinguished Senior Research Scholar/
///Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)/
///University of Hawai'i/
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