sweden – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:04:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps https://noise.getoto.net/2025/03/24/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:38:58 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=70038 Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG https://noise.getoto.net/2020/10/06/swiss-swedish-diplomatic-row-over-crypto-ag/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:11:31 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=60288 Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called Crypto International, still based in Switzerland but owned by a Swedish company.

It’s back in the news:

Late last week, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she had canceled a meeting with her Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis slated for this month after Switzerland placed an export ban on Crypto International, a Swiss-based and Swedish-owned cybersecurity company.

The ban was imposed while Swiss authorities examine long-running and explosive claims that a previous incarnation of Crypto International, Crypto AG, was little more than a front for U.S. intelligence-gathering during the Cold War...

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