&gt; It&#x27;s very Soviet<p>It&#x27;s not only a Soviet phenomena; American politics has utilized a &quot;paranoid style&quot;[1] for a long time.<p>&gt; sabotaging crypto<p>It seems like a lot of people are pretending that BULLRUN doesn&#x27;t exist. Nobody wants to believe that a coworker might be a <i>collaborator</i>; that kind of thinking can easily erode trust and create paranoia even when it isn&#x27;t warranted. Unfortunately, the program exists so it&#x27;s foolish to ignore the probability that it is still working to weaken crypto. As PHK explain in &quot;Operation Orchestra&quot;, encouraging weak crypto is much cheaper than breaking real crypto.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...</a>