[Cryptography] [cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

[Florian Weimer]

* Henry Baker:

> The Stasi regularly opened physical mail "at scale":
>
> http://www.military-history.us/2012/12/stasi-museum-leipzig-germany/
>
> "Machine used by the Stasi to steam open personal letters so their contents could be read in the search for dissidents."

The BRD did it as well (so far documented only for border-crossing mail),
and even engaged in large-scale suppression of incoming mail from the DDR,
as some sort of early spam filter (they wanted to get rid of propaganda
material from the DDR).