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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Anyone who says this is not an intelligence failure is blowing smoke. This is an intelligence failure and a security failure," said Lt. Gen. (ret.) William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the former head of US Army intelligence. "The security guys will blame it on the intelligence guys and the intelligence guys will tell us the great successes they had in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Exclusive: Inside the Plot | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

...NSA chief responded directly. "Kyoto," she said, "is not acceptable to the Administration or Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: A Climate Of Despair | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Condoleezza Rice National Security Adviser Gets traditional NSA office. Could share decorating tips with Colin Powell, who occupied it under Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Hold the Seats of Power | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...great David-and-Goliath story--humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks --but the complexity of the subject matter makes Crypto a slow read: encryption algorithms, export regulations and copyright wrangles, all of it crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don't say we didn't warn you). Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek, has also chosen a difficult hero in Whit Diffie. For all his brilliance, the shy, secretive math geek remains a cipher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ode to Code | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...does most of the upfront p.r. in the anti-crypto effort. The FBI doesn't like the prospect of losing some wiretaps. That's just the FBI; it would say the same thing about telepathy if it had it. The true secret mavens of crypto are at the NSA. Spy-code breakers such as Alan Turing invented electronic computers in the first place, so the NSA has a long-held hegemony here. The NSA sets the U.S. government's agenda on crypto, and it will not fairly or openly debate this subject, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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