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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by telmo on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:09AM (#35372092)
Source: "trust me bro"
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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by mejutoco on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:20AM (#35372257)
Might be unrelated, but there is one that could pass as conspiracy theory, well-sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by thenaturalist on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:34AM (#35373295)
This is a 30 year old story?

How is this relevant at all?

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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by mejutoco on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:48AM (#35373484)
> On 11 February 2020, The Washington Post, ZDF and SRF revealed that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence

It was defunct on 2018. That is not 30 years ago.

User telmo wanted a source for spying on citizens. I provided an example of that. It is not exactly what he asked for, but it is not nothing.

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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by thenaturalist on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:50AM (#35373510)
> The company was secretly purchased for US $5.75 million and jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018.

Literally the second sentence of the link you posted.

So no relevance in the context of Germany and BND.

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Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU by mejutoco on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:01AM (#35373682)
Fair enough. Germany's BND involvement ended in 1993 it seems. Not so relevant anymore.
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