NSA cracked CIA "Kryptos" sculpture before CIA

Kim Zetter: "It took more than eight years for a CIA analyst and a California computer scientist to crack three of the four coded messages on the CIA’s famed Kryptos sculpture in the late ’90s. Little did either of them know that a small group of cryptanalysts inside the NSA had beat them to it,… READ THE REST

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For the impatient.

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By impatient, you must mean those of us that clicked on red text that looked like a link but was not. Thank you.

They just logged into Jim Sanborn’s email and found the answer as part of the war on terror.

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How much of our taxpayer money went into all of this? Meanwhile, we still don’t have a single payer system in the USA. How quaint…

Charm offensive.

I wonder if this story was released now to distract us from the democracy destroying aspects of the NSA with a cudly knerd story.

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Yeah, but unless they solved the 4th/ i really don’t care.

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Gotta keep the nerds’ brains occupied so they don’t accidentally develop a sense of ethics or morality.

Still waiting for them to crack the double ROT13 on their ethics training manual.

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