Switzerland's “NSA” Comes Online in Two Weeks

"Switzerland has long been known for keeping the secrets of foreign governments and individuals, including financial transactions and more recently, digital transactions."

I never understand this false attitude. The Swiss have cooperated with other Western governments for years. They have always had a very strong signals intelligence capability. Also a huge amount of human intelligence operations run in Switzerland, so the locals are well placed to watch and trade that information to other partners. The Crypto AG spying being just one example https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors...