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This leaves out at least one other proven case - the NSA worked to weaken an early encrypted telephone system that was sold to numerous other governments and allowed them to listen in on conversations.

Then there's this: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-secret-backdoor-...

And then there was the Tailored Access Operations group that backdoored hundreds if not thousands of computers and networking gear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

And then there's Bullrun where they partnered with commercial software and hardware companies to insert backdoors, specifically in many commercial VPN systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)

Let's also not forget the backdooring of Windows NT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

...and Lotus Notes was also backdoored, as well.



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