27 December 2013 - RSA’s denial

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How were we supposed to know it was a backdoor? We thought the ten million bucks was for, uh... well, why think when you can get money for not thinking?
— RSA’s denial that it knew it was adding an NSA backdoor

clue:

RSA is a major cryptography company and used to be good. Now they’re all corporate. Their denial of knowledge was so carefully worded that they might as well have written at the bottom “we only suspected”.

take oh take this clue away

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