Marc Simons

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Marc Simons is a self-employed hardware developer who started his enterprise in 2000. In 2003 he co-founded the virtual Crypto Museum in Eindhoven (Netherlands), together with Paul Reuvers. Crypto Museum is a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the restoration and preservation of historical cipher machines and espionage gadgets. In 2020, Crypto Museum, together with German television station ZDF, revealed that the Swiss company Crypto AG - the world largest manufacturer of cryptographic equipment - was owned by the German and American intelligence services. In a secret operation known as Operation Rubicon, the CIA and BND had bought the company in 1970.

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