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The Hill: FBI fingerprint software could contain Russian code: report
Software for analyzing fingerprints used by the FBI and more than 18,000 other U.S. law enforcement agencies could contain Russian code.
Two former employees of a subsidiary of the French firm Safran Group told BuzzFeed News that the company secretly purchased code from the Russian cybersecurity company Papillon Systems. That code was then included in fingerprint analysis software the company sold to the FBI when the bureau purchased new software in 2011.
Papillon Systems regularly works with law enforcement agencies in Russia, including the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's modern-day spy agency. U.S. intelligence agencies say the FSB was linked to efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
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Update: FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say (Buzzfeed)
WNU Editor: The new rule in Washington .... "No Russian software please".
