This short video explains why computers regularly came with physical locks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The one thing the video doesn’t talk about is RAM theft. When RAM was expensive, stealing it was a problem. Powered by WPeMatico
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The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media — home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald — is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald’s subset of Snowden’s NSA documents since 2014, after he parted ways with the Guardian the year before. I don’t know the details … Read More “First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives” »
Really good article on the now-lost art of letterlocking. Powered by WPeMatico
Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days to arrive from Paris by mail coach. Accordingly, traders who could get the information more quickly could make money … Read More “1834: The First Cyberattack” »
Interesting history of the US Army Security Agency in the early years of Cold War Germany. Powered by WPeMatico
Here is a listing of all the documents that the NSA has in its archives that are dated earlier than 1930. Powered by WPeMatico
This is William Friedman’s highly annotated copy of Herbert Yardley’s book, The American Black Chamber. Powered by WPeMatico
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A delightful story. Powered by WPeMatico
New Atlas has a great three-part feature on the history of hacking as portrayed in films, including video clips. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s. Powered by WPeMatico