<story><title>John Nash&apos;s Letter to the NSA</title><url>http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thebigshane</author><text>National Geographic recently had a &quot;special&quot; on &quot;Inside the NSA: America&apos;s Cyber Secrets&quot; where they mentioned and showed this letter.  They said the NSA didn&apos;t end up doing anything with it but still wanted to classify it for 50+ years so that no one else could use the ideas within.&lt;p&gt;My favorite parts of the episode were:&lt;p&gt;- All of the Windows XP machines everyone was using&lt;p&gt;- The flashing red lights on the ceiling in secure areas (familiar for those that have been in similar secure facilities)&lt;p&gt;- The obnoxious re-enactments where real employees pretend to gather and discuss on-going developments.  It was outright silly.&lt;p&gt;The episode just aired in January and it looks like it isn&apos;t on their site yet, but there are related videos: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?search=%22Inside+the+NSA%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?search=%22Inside+t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  The NSA press release mentions it too.  They say &quot;featured&quot; but they didn&apos;t spend more than 5 minutes out of the hour program.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   The Nash letters were also recently featured on the National Geographic [...]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>John Nash&apos;s Letter to the NSA</title><url>http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohashi</author><text>I am pretty sure you can see them at the cryptography museum right next to the NSA.  I went two weeks ago and Nash letter is right in the front.</text></comment>