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War Plan Chat Includes Journalist

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

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

I sympathize with developers who throw up their hands and say, “I don’t do security stuff.”…
Boak’s Puzzle: Disposing of Classified Trash

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

War Plan Chat Includes Journalist