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The National Security Agency


Image by @mjb
I visited the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic Museum -- the real Spy museum -- and it's free (or, rather, the only thing tangible and verifiable I'm gonna get out of my taxes that go in this direction).

This is not a photo of the museum -- the museum is a small looking building tucked away in an obscure corner a few hundred yards from here. The black building with reflective windows is one of the most recognizable buildings on the main campus behind fences and razorwire. Us mere citizens don't get any closer.

India's Missile Test Gets Muted Response from Obama's National Security Team
"We understand that India tested an Agni V ballistic missile," said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor in a statement emailed to Yahoo News. "We urge all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear and missile ...
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Alic: Preventing a 'Digital Pearl Harbor'
The logic of the bills, six in total, is to enforce cooperation from companies and private individuals, particularly those operating power plants, chemical facilities, and communications systems in the name of national security.
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Secure and Simple Video Conferencing
... provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Traditional videoconferencing systems are costly in terms of equipment and notoriously complicated to set up and use. It also turns out that they have many security flaws.
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Senators press White House not to slash Afghan military
C) said premature reductions to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) could "jeopardize the progress of the past decade or weaken the security of Afghanistan." “Having labored so hard and so long to recruit, train and mentor sufficient Afghan ...
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Cultural confab x-rays National Insecurity
Addressing journalists on the theme of the forthcoming National Cultural Conference on Security in Nigeria; Culture, Peace and National security; the Roles of Traditional Ruler and Local Government Chairman in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of the ...
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National Security Information Systems


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Technical expert Jay Johnson applies the most current cyber security solutions to systems designed, developed and deployed by the Argonne National Security Information Systems (NSIS) Team. These systems are operated by Argonne for the Department of Energy, Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.

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Three Reasons Japan's Economic Pain Is Getting Worse
Finally, because Japan is aware of its own limited home resources, it has for the past 140 years maintained at all costs, as the core of its national security, its right of unrestricted access to the world's natural resources.
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The NSA Is Watching You
The intelligence official: William Binney worked for almost 40 years at the secretive National Security Agency (NSA), the US spy agency that dwarfs the CIA. As technical director of the NSA's World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, ...
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Defense Department to reorganize spy service
By David S. Cloud / Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will reorganize its spy service to target national security threats around the world after a decade of focusing chiefly on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior defense ...
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