159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream

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  There's a lot of questions I wish I could answer that I can't answer for classification reasons.

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  Yeah.

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  Okay.

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  All right, well, let me know when that changes.

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  Go ahead.

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  You go first.

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  From recorded Future news, I'm Dina Templerast, and this is click.

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  Here's mic drop.

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  An extended cut of an interview we did that we think you might want to hear a little more of.

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  And today we're talking to Vince Houghton.

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  He's a director and curator of a museum you may not even know exists.

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  It's called the National Cryptologic Museum, and it's a museum of the national security Agency, except it isn't classified.

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  If you're one of those people who are into all things spycraft, it's worth a visit.

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  It's based just outside the wire at NSA headquarters in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.

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  So if you get to the armed guards at the gate, you've gone a little too far.

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  And the stuff that Vince has managed to dig up to put on display is pretty spectacular.

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  I can tell you about 85% of our artifacts on display are one of a kind.

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  They're either the first of whatever they were, they're the only one left of whatever they were, or they were used by a specific person or specific historical event.

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  So you can see everything from an enigma code machine used by Adolf Hitler to President Obama's infamous BlackBerry.

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  I had to fight really hard just to keep my BlackBerry.

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