history – Cryptosmith

Computer History for Sale – Papers and Books

I must downsize and sell many significant books and papers in computer history. Topics include pioneering…

Journalists aren’t usually invited to online chats about US war plans. This seemed obvious until yesterday,…

Here is a set of geographical maps of the ARPANET in the 1970s and 1980s. There…

I sympathize with developers who throw up their hands and say, “I don’t do security stuff.”…

Recently I was skimming through the NSA’s “classified history of COMSEC” (Volume 1 and Volume 2). This…