2024-12-27
11 分钟Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton.
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From Recorded Future News.
I'm Dena Templerest, and this is Click Here's Mic Drop, an extended cut of an interview we did that we think you might want to hear a little more of.
And today we're listening back to a story we ran earlier this year about the National Cryptologic Museum, which you could be forgiven for not knowing even exists.
I spoke to its director and curator, Vince Houghton, and if you're one of those people who is about all things spycraft, it's worth a visit.
It's based just outside the wire at NSA headquarters in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
And if you get to the armed guards at the gate, you've gone a little too far.
The stuff Vince has managed to dig up is pretty spectacular.
I can tell you.
About 85% of our artifacts on display are one of a kind.
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.
So you can see everything from an Enigma code machine used by Adolf Hitler to President Obama's infamous BlackBerry.
I had to fight really hard just.
To keep my BlackBerry.