Comment by willvarfar
Comment by willvarfar 10 months ago
During the cold war, Russia intercepted typewriters and teleprinters going to the US and other embassies and inserted implants in them. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
Comment by willvarfar 10 months ago
During the cold war, Russia intercepted typewriters and teleprinters going to the US and other embassies and inserted implants in them. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
And the US CIA ran the "Swiss" firm Crypto AG, which sold cable-encryption (as in telegraphic / telex coms) equipment with pre-installed back-doors:
<https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias...>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG>