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Computer History for Sale – Papers and Books
I must downsize and sell many significant books and papers in computer history. Topics include pioneering vacuum tube computers, early programming and user interface design, pioneering networking, and computer architecture ...
NSA Confirms Use of Anthropic’s Mythos Despite Pentagon Blacklist
What happened The NSA is actively deploying Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, according to an Axios report published April 19, 2026, despite the Department of Defense having designated Anthropic a “Supply-Chain Risk to National ...
Possible US Government iPhone Hacking Tool Leaked
Wired writes (alternate source): Security researchers at Google on Tuesday released a report describing what they’re calling “Coruna,” a highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit that includes five complete hacking techniques capable of ...
Sen. Wyden Warns of Another Section 702 Abuse
Sen. Ron Wyden is warning us of an abuse of Section 702: Wyden took to the Senate floor to deliver a lengthy speech, ostensibly about the since approved (with support of many ...
Iran Has One Card Left—It’s Pointed at Your Network
In light of today’s attack by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, it is prudent to ask: What can Iran do? Strip away everything Iran had a year ago and ask yourself ...
Feds Take Their Ball and Go Home From RSAC Conference
Read Alan's sharp critique of federal cyber agencies withdrawing from RSAC over leadership politics—and why sidelining collaboration hurts the entire cybersecurity community ...
All Aboard the Zero-Trust Train
The castle has fallen. The moat has dried up. Your perimeter? It’s a fiction you’ve been telling yourself while adversaries waltz through your “trusted” internal network like they own the place. If ...
1965 Cryptanalysis Training Workbook Released by the NSA
In the early 1960s, National Security Agency cryptanalyst and cryptanalysis instructor Lambros D. Callimahos coined the term “Stethoscope” to describe a diagnostic computer program used to unravel the internal structure of pre-computer ...
“Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment”
Law journal article that looks at the Dual_EC_PRNG backdoor from a US constitutional perspective: Abstract: The National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly paid and pressured technology companies to trick their customers into using ...
DIRNSA Fired
In “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 at the ...
