Forget that Utah Data Center - this is were it actually happened: the #NSA's Tordella Supercomputer Building (TSCB), built in 1996 just outside Fort Meade, Maryland:
The Tordella Supercomputer Building is somewhat hidden in the woods, north of the well-known #NSA-headquarters buildings:
Before 1996, the NSA's supercomputers were in the basement of the large flat OPS-1 building, which is from 1957 and was clearly not suited anymore:
In 2017, the #NSA opened its High Performance Computing Center-2 (HPCC2), which is named after cryptanalist Dorothy Blum (1924-1980) and is more than 4 times as big as the Tordella Supercomputer Building from 1996:
And here's were the NSA's old and the new supercomputer buildings are located:
It seems that already in 1997, Discovery Channel was allowed to film inside the NSA's Tordella Supercomputer Building, which had been finished just a year earlier:
The 1997 documentary also gives some great views of how unspectacular it looked inside the NSA, here for example the NSOC watch center:
The phones which the NSA used in those days were:
- a common Comdial ExecuTech office phone which connected to the NSA's internal National Secure Telephone System (NSTS) mainresource.com/ComdialExecute…
- an STU III secure telephone made by AT&T: cryptomuseum.com/crypto/att/110…
More about the telephone and computer equipment in the office of former NSA director Alexander can be found here: electrospaces.net/2014/02/nsa-di…
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Gisteren verscheen het jaarverslag van de Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) over 2022: aivd.nl/actueel/nieuws…
Uit het jaarverslag blijkt dat de AIVD vorig jaar 1930 gerichte telefoon- en internettaps uitvoerde, wat wederom een daling is ten opzichte van de 2004 taps van het jaar daarvoor:
In het jaarverslag van de #AIVD ook een stukje over wat ze met de nieuwe mogelijkheid van ongerichte kabeltoegang aan het doen zijn:
NEW: Summary of the report about the investigation by the by the Swiss intelligence oversight committee into the case of Crypto AG, which was secretly owned by CIA and BND: electrospaces.net/2020/12/a-swis…
The committee found that the Swiss foreign intelligence service knew that Crypto AG was owned by CIA and BND since 1993, but failed to inform the responsible minister
After the Americans approved it, the Swiss foreign intelligence service also learned about the weak encryption devices sold by Crypto AG and used this knowledge to read foreign communications which the Swiss intercepted at this satellite station codenamed Onyx:
NEW: Danish media revealed that the NSA tried to spy on Danish and other European targets via a joint cable tapping operation in Denmark: electrospaces.net/2020/11/via-ca…
The NSA sent the Danish military intelligence service FE selectors related to targets in Denmark and other European countries - just like the Americans did during their cooperation with the German BND: electrospaces.net/2015/05/german…
In Germany, this led to the "Selector Affair" in which eventually an independent investigator was granted access to some 40.000 suspicious NSA selectors: electrospaces.net/2015/11/new-de…
In the last months the Danish press provided a surprisingly comprehensive and detailed picture of how Danish intelligence and the NSA cooperated in cable tapping on Danish soil, based upon an agreement from the mid-1990s
This joint cable tapping operation in Denmark appeared to be very similar to operation Eikonal (2004-2008) under which the NSA cooperated with the German BND for tapping international transit cables in Frankfurt: electrospaces.net/2015/05/new-de…
According to a declassified report, the #CIA's hacking unit failed to secure its own systems, which resulted in the loss of the #Vault7 hacking tools: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…