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I thought so too, at first, but the new information is not just that some Crypto AG products were somehow compromised for some customers (widely reported since the 1990s), but that the company was literally owned by the BND and CIA. Not in a metaphorical sense of owned.

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Well, at least now we know it's widespread [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

This is also well known for several decades. I'd be more interested in hearing from a whistleblower whether someone runs the shell company behind VeraCrypt. DGSE?

Have we found out anything more about the people behind it recently? It's been a question I've been pondering for awhile. I know this was mentioned in a previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693073

I've often thought an interesting place for an intelligence agency to place or recruit a source would be in a code review organisation. There are a couple of high profile ones that do a lot of work on open source projects. Let's be honest, very few people have the time, energy and skills to review a project independently of this.

Of course there comes a point where too much tinfoil makes the hat fall off.

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