[guardian-dev] Fwd: John Gilmore analyzes NSA disclosures to EFF

[Hans of Guardian]

Its definitely interesting to read these details about how they operate.   I'm sure they use commodity hardware as much as possible.  But they also spend a lot of money making custom chips at IBM's foundry:
http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/tapo.shtml
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/04/0203/art1.html

And that makes for different computers than what we can get...

.hc


On Sep 15, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:

> The NSA uses the same computers we do. 
> 
> -lee
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Young 
> Date: Sunday, September 15, 2013
> Subject: John Gilmore analyzes NSA disclosures to EFF
> To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org, cryptome at freelists.org
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> 
> John Gilmore assesses NSA disclosures to EFF on encryption,
> security, operations, more:
> 
> NSA FISA Business Records Offer a Lot to Learn
> 
> http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-fisa-business-records.htm
> 
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