Borepatch

Wow .  And just plain-jane iOS, too.  Out of the box.  As someone who ran across (into?) "Secure Operating Systems" more than once...

This one is from 1965 (i.e. it was classified for 60 years!) [PDF warning]. It's the output from a computer program (from 1965!) that t...

The NSA and the UK GCHQ have jointly declassified a pile of WWII documents and actually produced a book: Secret Messengers: Disseminating SI...

LOL .  I thought that song was hilarious.  You can listen to it here . Remember to always call it please "research" ...

I know that some of you are former Secret Squirrel types, and a bunch more were (shall we say) Secret Squirrel adjacent.  I just stumbled ac...

An Extinction Level Event is when something - we typically don't really understand what - causes a mass die-off, with 60% or more of sp...

If this were such a big deal, would the Chinese be talking about it? According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Sta...

Wow : The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war eff...

You can't keep secrets in a bank.  There are too many tellers. 

Life imitates art, and not in a good way.  An early scene from The Matrix shows a simulation that Morpheus uses to instruct Neo on how the ...

There have been a number of questions and comments about yesterday's post regarding COMSEC for the new year.  These seem to me to be rel...

Sean Connery is dead at 90.  He defined movie cool in the 1960s, and made the James Bond franchise into a huge success.  That franchise insp...

Back during the Cold War when I was a newly minted engineer (Electrical, thanks for asking!) I took a job at Three Letter Intelligence Agenc...

 George Orwell's prophetic 1984 had a dystopian future where everything was controlled by the government.  The agency charged with rewr...

 I knew that he was the most interesting man in the world , but didn't know just how interesting he was.  Like "Plan the overthrow ...

The problem facing an Intelligence Agency is the same as the problem facing a historian studying some past civilization: what are the source...

It is near the termination of submarine cables from the Middle East, and so there's low latency (combined with political stability).  An...

Lots of good stuff that is worth your attention: Epic rant is epic .  Aesop brings it.  Long - almost Borepatchian in length - but is a mu...

It's your cell phone. This is a fascinating talk about how the Italian police identified a CIA operation in 2003.  It points out just ...

Franz Kafka wrote a book ( The Trial ) in which the State refused to tell the accused man what crime he was accused of.  It seems that the b...