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Re:CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on cl... by jo-m on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:27AM (#22308239)
Side note: Threema is a Swiss "GmbH" corporation, meaning that all the owners and the number of their shares are public in the Swiss commercial register [0], and those have to be natural persons. So it would be slightly harder to hide ownership. Those people can still be straw men, though.

[0]: https://sz.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml?uid=C...

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