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China escapes Microsoft outage, thanks to Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive (www.scmp.com)

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[–] [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.