[dgellow]

Though it was a CIA ops. That doesn’t make everything “swiss made” suspect (but it clearly impacted the “Swiss made” brand and Zug’s reputation).

Switzerland has strict data protection laws, that’s why some companies are established there and pushing that branding (also, low taxes).

[nix23]

If your intelligence service let the biggest bank of Switzerland (UBS) buy those product, there is no excuse, and later being proud of the whole thing (as a neutral country) it's a shame and a shit stain on our integrity (which is/was more or less the only real quality of Swiss services)

[fmajid]

CIA and BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German intelligence service). They actually owned the CryptoAG company. It's become a big political scandal there, with accusations that the Swiss intelligence services knew and deliberately misled their parliament.

[acct776]

Of course some of them knew.