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[โ€“] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It was founded by the Manhattan district attorney and the city of London police force (https://globalcyberalliance.org/history/) and IBM. I know that they say they are now reincorporated as a nonprofit in Switzerland but I find it suspicious that they don't mention their history on their webpage, the Wikipedia entry doesn't have a history section and the Global Cyber Alliance doesn't have a Wikipedia entry either.

I might be paranoid but all this seems weird to me and I don't trust them.