DIRNSA Fired
April 7 2025In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying...
Read moreIronNet Has Shut Down
October 11 2024After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that...
Read moreList of Old NSA Training Videos
September 4 2024The NSA’s “National Cryptographic School Television Catalogue” from 1991 lists about 600 COMSEC and SIGINT training videos. There are a bunch explaining the operations of various cryptographic equipment, and a...
Read moreAdm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published
August 29 2024The “long lost lecture” by Adm. Grace Hopper has been published by the NSA. (Note that there are two parts.)
It’s a wonderful talk: funny, engaging, wise,...
Read moreThe NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
July 12 2024The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing...
Read moreJames Bamford on Section 702 Extension
June 28 2024Longtime NSA-watcher James Bamford has a long article on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Read morePaul Nakasone Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors
June 24 2024Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone has joined the board of OpenAI.
Read moreDeclassified NSA Newsletters
April 3 2024Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales of the Krypt,” from 1994 to 2003.
There are...
Read moreDocuments about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s
February 7 2024Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys. 404 Media has the story. EDITED TO ADD: The documents are now on Archive.org.
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