PBS Newshour visits DEFCON, listen to founder Jeff Moss explain hacking and describes this threat to National Security, 10 Aug;
Part 1, 'The Great Leveler';
Part 2, Interview with Gen. Michael Hayden.
Dayton Codebreakers
-- the Video --
Broadcast on American Public Television extended 2006-2014!
Look for DVDs available
at these places
Now including the
Nat'l Museum
of the US Air Force
Over 7,000 visitors
this year so far!
Those incredible machines 
CNET News and the CBS News Tech Talk Blog,
Aug 6th: Cryptology Devices That Turned the Tide of War:
The National Cryptologic Museum, run by the National Security Agency, is a treasure trove of artifacts of the modern--and not so modern--history of code ...
This mission of this site is to tell the story of hundreds of people who worked at the United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory, a top secret project in Dayton during World War Two. These people kept their secret for over fifty years.
This site is maintained in Dayton, Ohio by Deborah (Desch) Anderson; additional contributions have been made through the generosity of Dayton History, especially the Archive Center at Dayton History, and the internet service provider Donet.
I am grateful to the Archive Center and to the Wenger Command Display in Pensacola, Florida and the many veterans--WAVES and sailors-- who have been so generous over the years for a share of the photographs presented here.
Thanks for learning about a part of Dayton's, and the nation's, history.
The story of the Dayton code breakers survived 50 years of secrecy in part because it woven with so many threads of world history -- military, diplomatic, technological, scientific. I emphasize technological facts and personal stories on this site but I think it's important to mention that the equipment designed here was part of the dawn of the age of information, and that so many of today's headlines deal with issues originating 60 years ago.
I hope the new section in the right hand margin with links to these headlines, opinions, and personal stories will complement the core of the web site.
Wonder what else is here?
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Lost? You are at
In the News
PBS Newshour: Hacking: Is it a talent, ingenuity, a crime, a science, an art? all of these?
Intelligence: Plugging the WikiLeak
It all sounds, at times, like a spy movie, where the possibilities extend as far as the imagination can reach. Read more at the Australian Tim or here.
Online: Washington Post Investigation
Pro or con, worth your consideration: Top Secret America
Intelligence: Russian spy ring hid secret messages on the web
2 July: New Scientist online report states the group communicated by posting images encoded with secret messages to public websites, a modern twist on an ancient practice known as steganography. Read more...
Bletchley: Digitization project announced
5 June: the Bletchley Park Trust announced that, thanks to help from electronics giant Hewlett-Packard millions of documents that comprise that famous codebreaking center’s WW2 archives will be put online. Read more at the Nat.l Cryptologic Museum Foundation's web news
myGloss magazine: lauds Alan Turing on his 98th birthday
Bletchley: In March Parliament voted funds for preservation
Bletchley Park mansion will get much needed repairs. CNN.
Cryptography: and Physics meet for innovation
15 July: Quantum mechanics enables location-based cryptography--doesn't need keyes, and prevents eavesdropping. Read more in CWI
Cryptography: Top-secret funk machine
NY Times book review -- Hello, Robot --history of the vocoder
Online: Site worth a visit
For anyone interested in World War II:
Big News around here in 2009