Sources: the CIA secretly owned the leading supplier of encryption systems worldwide and could easily read allies' and adversaries' communications for decades (Greg Miller/Washington Post)

Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Sources: the CIA secretly owned the leading supplier of encryption systems worldwide and could easily read allies' and adversaries' communications for decades  —  For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.

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