Because of the new released documents. It says exactly this in their story. And why is it every time some article comes out about US spying, there is always someone complaining that they knew this all along? Good for you?
> For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents.
See also the 1992 news stories about the arrest of Hans Buehler [1], further elaborated in a 1998 article in Covert Action Quarterly [2]:
> The cover shielding the NSA-Crypto AG relationship was torn in March 1992, when the Iranian military counterintelligence service arrested Hans Buehler, Crypto AG's marketing representative in Teheran.
[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/03/30/Iran-arrests-Swiss-m...
Every article I'm seeing in the past week refers to documents released in 2015. Why the fuck now? It reeks of public manipulation, especially with the US increasing efforts to convince people not to use Huawei equipment.
That's correct. The documents were reported on by the BBC in 2015 [1], directly linking to the declassified NSA memos [2][3].
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028
[2] https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/friedmanDocuments/Cor...
[3] https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/friedmanDocuments/Rep...