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Re:Swiss government files criminal complaint over Crypto AG ... by 101404 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:42PM (#22476770)
What if the same company also provides the cellphones and computers used to do the encryption of the data being sent?
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Re:Swiss government files criminal complaint over Crypto AG ... by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:44PM (#22478541)
Then you're programming Satan's computer[1] and need to start doing things like using a better trusted OS & compiler. Or go to a different vendor. Since end-user devices need to swap around a lot this tends to be a lot easier than replacing the underlying infrastructure devices.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/satan.pdf

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