Re: NSA museum now open, if you can find it

That museum sounds fascinating.  I got to visit the NSA's so-called
"Friendship Annex" once on business.  This is not at Fort Meade itself,
but a few miles away, to keep the impure and unclean away from the holy
temple itself.

Whoever named this place had quite a sense of irony; the surveillance
cameras, briefcase searches, constant escorts, and armed guards did not
project a particularly "friendly" image.  I was hoping to pick up some
souvenirs, but when I asked about an employee gift shop they looked at me
like I was crazy.  One thing that really caught my eye was a poster which
was displayed widely, apparently a security-reminder-of-the-month thing.
This was the holiday season, and the poster showed Santa stopped at the
gate submitting his bag to be searched.  I'm surprised they didn't have
the old boy being strip-searched.  Anyway, I begged and begged but nobody
would let me have one.

I really think the government is missing an opportunity by not selling
NSA sweatshirts and such.  Recently the Los Angeles coroner's office
started selling souvenirs and they were overwhelmed by the popular demand.
Especially as cryptography becomes more popular, the NSA's sinister-but-
glamorous image could be a marketer's dream.

Hal

Hal said:
> 
> like I was crazy.  One thing that really caught my eye was a poster which
> was displayed widely, apparently a security-reminder-of-the-month thing.
> This was the holiday season, and the poster showed Santa stopped at the
> gate submitting his bag to be searched.  I'm surprised they didn't have
> the old boy being strip-searched.  Anyway, I begged and begged but nobody
> would let me have one.
> 
> I really think the government is missing an opportunity by not selling
> NSA sweatshirts and such.  Recently the Los Angeles coroner's office
> started selling souvenirs and they were overwhelmed by the popular demand.
> Especially as cryptography becomes more popular, the NSA's sinister-but-
> glamorous image could be a marketer's dream.
> 
> Hal
> 
> 

I fried of mine had some cool posters brought home by one of his parents
who has works for the US Govt and whos job had ties to the NSA.  Some fun
as hell posters including on shoing a TeleVideo dumb terminal with a
hatchet stuck in the top and the title along the lines of "Those wily hackers
are out there, guard tht password".

-craig

From:  Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To:  cypherpunks@toad.com
>That museum sounds fascinating.  I got to visit the NSA's so-called
>"Friendship Annex" once on business.  This is not at Fort Meade itself,
>but a few miles away, to keep the impure and unclean away from the holy
>temple itself.

It's named after Friendship Airport which is not called
Baltimore-Washington Interntional Airport which these buildings are
very close to.

>Whoever named this place had quite a sense of irony; the surveillance
>cameras, briefcase searches, constant escorts, and armed guards did not
>project a particularly "friendly" image.  I was hoping to pick up some
>souvenirs, but when I asked about an employee gift shop they looked at me
>like I was crazy.  One thing that really caught my eye was a poster which
>was displayed widely, apparently a security-reminder-of-the-month thing.
>This was the holiday season, and the poster showed Santa stopped at the
>gate submitting his bag to be searched.  I'm surprised they didn't have
>the old boy being strip-searched.  Anyway, I begged and begged but nobody
>would let me have one.

I believe you can get on a mailing list for these posters free.  Try
calling NSA and asking for M56 or "Security Awareness".

>I really think the government is missing an opportunity by not selling
>NSA sweatshirts and such.  Recently the Los Angeles coroner's office
>started selling souvenirs and they were overwhelmed by the popular demand.
>Especially as cryptography becomes more popular, the NSA's sinister-but-
>glamorous image could be a marketer's dream.

The bureaucracy in the Federal Government makes this sort of thing
very messy.

>Hal

Donald

NSA coffee mugs *do* exist; I have one in my cupboard.

I had to bribe it away from a friend who works for IDA/CRD, the NSA
"think tank" in Princeton.

Phil

On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Phil Karn wrote:

> NSA coffee mugs *do* exist; I have one in my cupboard.
> 
> I had to bribe it away from a friend who works for IDA/CRD, the NSA
> "think tank" in Princeton.
> 
> Phil
> 


You scare me.