The NSA has released a guide to using
the Internet.
The document was written for internal
use and released under the Freedom of Information Act. Because the
NSA had no trouble releasing it, it is easy to be cynical about what
it contains. It seems to be a general introduction to
the Internet for someone who is not particularly Internet savvy but
is not intimidated by computers. The document itself can be found here:
For those who are unaware, the NSA or
National Security Agency is a key component of the US Intelligence
community, responsible for protecting the communications security of this nation and
attacking that security of other nations. Communications security is a fancy way to say code breaking, by the way. For many years it is
believed that NSA had the largest computer room in the world,
underground, in Fort Meade, Md. Now it is not clear if it has the
largest, e.g. how does it compare with Google or Facebook?
This document is probably only of
modest interest. It is the concept of an NSA "Guide to the Internet" that is amusing.
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