Hi and welcome back to Sabare's malicious life.

I'm Rame Levy.

This is part two of our series about crypto AG, the inventor and founder of

crypto AG, the less you actually know him.

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Boris, through Swedish, was born in a small village in Azerbaijan where his father ran the local arm of Alfred Nobel's petroleum company.

Boris earned an engineering degree, but by the time he was put in charge of A.B.

Cryptograph, he had no experience working with cipher machines. And yet remarkably in under six months he successfully

built a model that rivaled the Enigma, the second most notorious weapon of the war

behind the atom bomb.

Soon, his machines were not just secure, but entirely unbreakable by even the NSA. And so he was approached with an offer to partner with

US intelligence for the most brazen hacking operation ever conceived.

According to accounts, Haglin had absolutely no calm, accepting the offer on the spot.

Trying to unravel what shaped Hayling, who he really was, what he thought, what he was capable of, becomes more difficult the harder you try. In that way and that way alone he was quite

like his son, Bo Jr. was a man of average height with white combed over hair like his father.

There's really only one photograph of him in circulation, a family picture.

Boris Sr. is prominent in the foreground, while his son, perhaps fittingly, is lined up in the back.

Boris looks elderly, but is lined up in the back.

Boris looks elderly but distinguished, while his son looks a bit naughty, maybe, sly.

His smile is more of a smirk and his goatee certainly doesn't help.

Bo Jr. was a man of contradictions. Like his father, he resists easy definition.

On one hand, he was his father's successor in more ways than one.

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