Интересное про то, как ЦРУ ~30 лет секретно владели одной из крупнейших криптографических компаний, и в результате продавали правительствам десятков стран (!!) оборудование с бэкдорами.

В паре случаев инженеры догадывались о бэкдорах, и их приходилось увольнять 🤷😈

>In 1977, Heinz Wagner, the chief executive at Crypto who knew the true role of the CIA and BND, abruptly fired a wayward engineer after the NSA complained that diplomatic traffic coming out of Syria had suddenly became unreadable. The engineer, Peter Frutiger, had long suspected Crypto was collaborating with German intelligence. He had made multiple trips to Damascus to address complaints about their Crypto products and apparently, without authority from headquarters, had fixed their vulnerabilities.

>...Wagner jumped at the chance to hire her. But NSA officials immediately raised concerns that she was “too bright to remain unwitting.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/