[Cryptography] 'The intelligence coup of the century'

[Henry Baker]

At 10:16 AM 2/12/2020, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>We knew Crypto-AG was crooked but not that it was owned by the CIA/German intel.  We knew that the mechanical Haeglin machines were breakable but nobody proved the later electronic versions were backdoored as far as I know, we just suspected that (correctly).
>
>And what are the same people doing today? Who slinks round the IETF dripping poison into people's ears?  Who drove DANE and DPRIV down a dead end?  Who persuaded the IESG to stand their ground rather than deploy DNSSEC in 2002?

This WaPo article throws gasoline onto already blazing conspiracy theories about DoD's relationship with hi tech firms -- Intel, AMD, TI, Microsoft, RSA Security, Google, Facebook, Amazon (AWS), etc.

Cough, cough, In-Q-Tel, cough, cough, Google, cough, cough, Eric Schmidt, cough, cough, Sheryl Sandberg, cough, cough, Palintir, cough, cough, Steve Blank's 'Secret History of Silicon Valley', cough, cough, Facebook, cough, cough, cough, gag.

In 2050, we'll be reading in WaPo that Facebook/Google was 'the intelligence coup of the [21st] century'.

Huawei will now finally do what they should have been doing all along: rip every bit of Western technology out of their communications infrastructure and build their own technology completely from scratch.  It will cost trillions (which they can afford), but the rest of communications technology in the 21st C. will be written in Chinese characters.

(The U.S. did the same thing to the Brits in the 19th C., when the Brits kept trying to screw the U.S. with railroad technology, and yet again with long wave radio.)

Perhaps someone in the U.S. intel community should Google 'blowback'?