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December 26th, 2017 By Rafia Shaikh
The US government may like to
blame Russian software companies for giving backdoor access to the Kremlin, it appears even the country’s security agencies aren’t clean. At least 18,000 US law enforcement agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation use a fingerprint software that reportedly includes code written by a Russian firm with close ties to the Kremlin.
The revelation comes amid concerns that this code could have given the Russian government backdoor access to information about millions of Americans. The information comes through two whistleblowers who were employees of a French company that had inserted this piece of code into the fingerprint-analysis software.
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