NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers 167
An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has declassified an eye-opening pre-history of computers used for code-breaking between the 1930s and 1960s. The 344 page report, entitled It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis (pdf), it is available on the Government Attic web site. Government Attic has also just posted a somewhat less declassified NSA compendium from 1993: A Collection of Writings on Traffic Analysis. (pdf)"
Pay no attention (Score:5, Funny)
to the man in the Russian airport.
First pwned! (Score:5, Funny)
Am I crazy for opening a PDF from the NSA?
PDFS (Score:5, Funny)
Of course it wasn't magic (Score:2, Funny)
As we all know it was Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, using a steam powered analog computer to break (and make) secret communications. Case closed, this is clearly more lies by the NSA.
Re:PDFS (Score:4, Funny)
Hey you guys who are talking about Snowden, download this PDF with some cool additional code! Don't worry about it. I promise we didn't buy exploits from Adobe or Microsoft!
Why buy what you can get for free?
Re:Pay no attention (Score:5, Funny)
What man? The media is now reporting that Snowden never made it to Moscow. In fact, they are now reporting that there is no record of a US citizen with that name, anymore. It was all a big misunderstanding. It was just an intelligence training exercise.
Oh, isn't this convenient... (Score:5, Funny)
Squirrel!
Re:Broken Link (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pre History? (Score:2, Funny)
Who did Herodotus have to fuck to be the father of history?