I was at first very disappointed to read Ueli Maurer's name in the article; I attended quite a few of his lectures. According to the interview with him on the "Rundschau" (unfortunately in Swiss German), he hasn't known about anything and was certain himself that Omnisec didn't have anything to do with the NSA. However, I still struggle to see what exactly his involvement was with them - he was a "Berater" (consultant), but says that he didn't really have any insight into the algorithms etc. and couldn't have possibly known about their issues; so what exactly did he do for them, just sell his name?
I really appreciated him as a prof (even though he was known to be a complete hard ass when it came to exams with high bars to pass) and would be surprised if anything turned up that would question his integrity further; still, it does leave a bit of a bad taste after all his preaching...
And as a Swiss, this is a complete fiasco. That the issue with Crypto AG didn't send a few heads in the NDB rolling was an absolute disgrace, they didn't even pretend to be humbled by this or anything of that sort. And now another such story emerges, and while I do hope that we finally see some action now, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing happened again.
I really appreciated him as a prof (even though he was known to be a complete hard ass when it came to exams with high bars to pass) and would be surprised if anything turned up that would question his integrity further; still, it does leave a bit of a bad taste after all his preaching...
And as a Swiss, this is a complete fiasco. That the issue with Crypto AG didn't send a few heads in the NDB rolling was an absolute disgrace, they didn't even pretend to be humbled by this or anything of that sort. And now another such story emerges, and while I do hope that we finally see some action now, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing happened again.