If you want to understand why the US intelligence community is so freaked out about Huawei, it’s because they’ve been playing the same game for decades. #CryptoAG http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html …
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For the record, I published the Crypto AG story 23 years ago when I was an editor at CovertAction Quarterly.https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1227221479143673856 …
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Here’s our Crypto AG story from 1997-98. I wonder if young journalists today would know how to research a story like this today without using the internet.
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The idea that the US was able to read the most secret cables of allies is hardly new. I successfully sued the NSA in the early 90s for the ULTRA Top Secret MAGIC intercepts read by the President. They revealed the US broke almost all secret allied code systems throughout WWII.
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The CIA's ‘Minerva’ Secret (via
@NSArchive) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cyber-vault-intelligence-southern-cone/2020-02-11/cias-minerva-secret#.XkMgYFN_PSg.twitter … My assassinated IPS colleague --> "Encryption revelations raise questions about US official knowledge of Argentina 'dirty war' atrocities, Chile’s Letelier assassination, Southern Cone military dictatorships."Show this thread
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And for the record, the CAQ story from 1997 relied mainly on the
@baltimoresun story I wrote with@tbowman in 1995: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-1995344001-story.html … -
You and Bowman owned the NSA beat which is why we credited you up front!
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You are pretty cool chap for doing your job so well.
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