Submission + - Hexagon declassified. (yahoo.com) 1
kulnor writes: Hexagon, a cold war secret project around spy satellites to monitor USSR was declassified last Septembre. "For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.They wore protective white jumpsuits, and had to walk through air-shower chambers before entering the sanitized "cleanroom" where the equipment was stored. They spoke in code."
As more and more WWII and cold war secrets are declassified, we learn about amazing technological feats involving hundreds of people working in secrecy. I was awestruck a while ago by the Bletchley Park story around cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park), including Alan Turing's involvement. I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the likes. Or will they leak before their time?
As more and more WWII and cold war secrets are declassified, we learn about amazing technological feats involving hundreds of people working in secrecy. I was awestruck a while ago by the Bletchley Park story around cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park), including Alan Turing's involvement. I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the likes. Or will they leak before their time?
