NSA conducts informal poll

The NSA has declassified Technical Journal articles ’56–’73. Of the 29 articles they’ve listed, only 7 are working links—the other 22 are 404s.

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Working: “About NSA,” “Antipodal Propagation,” “Did Aleksandr Popov Invent Radio?”, “Book Review: Lost Languages,” “Book Review: Lincos, Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1,” “Aristocrat—An Intelligence Test for Computers,” and “Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”

Broken: “Emergency Destruction of Documents,” “Development of Automatic Telegraph Swithing Systems,” “Chatter Patterns: A Last Resort,” “Introduction to Traffic Analysis,” “Signals from Outer Space,” “Science and Cryptology,” “A New Concept in Computing,” “Data Transmission Over Telephone Circuits,” “Soviet Science and Technology: Present Levels and Future Prospects,” “A Program for Correcting Spelling Errors,” “The Borders of Cryptology,” “A Cryptologic Fairy Tale,” “Why Analog Computation?”, “Book Review: Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision,” “Soviet Communications Journals as Sources of Intelligence,” “Something May Rub Off!”, “Time Is,” “Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” “The Library and the User,” “Mokusatsu: One Word, Two Lessons,” “Key to The Extraterrestrial Messages,” and “Earliest Applications of the Computer at NSA.”

So what does this reveal?

(Cryptome)

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