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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They escaped because they don't use the US intelligence connected backdoor company and DNC shill "crowdstrike" which lied about Russian actors attacking the DNC as part of the Russiagate hoax and banked off that for some time after.

They'd be deranged to use any US "security" company as they're all full of "ex" NSA/CIA/FBI and a fat clear pipeline of info, spying enabling, etc back to those agencies. The US of course slanders the rest of the world with projection to cover up things like this, to cover up the Snowden revelations of them being an empire of spies. They say Chinese/Russian companies can't be trusted because they have some people with friends in intelligence but no proof of these countries crossing the lines like the US did. No proof of hardware implants like the US did with Cisco to China. No proof that the US is anything but an extraordinary bad faith actor who can't play by any rules but the rules of "one set of rules for me, another for thee".

I fucking hate a lot of these next-gen endpoint detection and remediation companies. Them, Mandiant, other clowns in the US are little better than private sockpuppets of the CIA/FBI/US State department. Regularly claiming China or Russia hacked this or that which is so convenient for their masters. Never acting more circumspect about the evidence and declaring that they can't be certain but it says x,y,z and letting people draw their own conclusions without raising geopolitical tensions as responsible actors should. Because they're not responsible actors. They're not even really security companies. They are organs of geopolitical containment, propaganda, messaging, and defense against the multipolar world and for US hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There is no variation of Windows that isn't CIAware. Complaining about extra backdoors and bloat in a unsecurable, backdoored, closed source bloatware OS is time better spent learning and using the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Somewhat related article that ppl might find interesting:

  • In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good old Operation Rubicon. Soviets saw straight through it... euros not so much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Part of a long history. After WW2 the west gave away enigma machines to developing nations. They had by this point cracked it and thus could read the messages but told no one for decades.