national security agency

What is a national Security Agency?

disclaimer:  I am not Edward Snowden.  YES, I am a contractor.  I have not and will not give up critical information that might harm my way of life.  I am NOT a fan of the Patriot Act for obvious reasons, but I have been to over a dozen countries, and I LOVE the USA (warts and ALL).  I am not going to get all patriotic and shit and I will keep my half baked political views to myself.  I will just say I am optimistic (which I am sure gives away some of my political leanings).  I will just say there is NO sensitive material on this blog!!  I do NOT have inside info on the workings of the NSA.  All aggregated data is from public sources.

The NSA is probably the most powerful organization that has ever existed (2014).  I am not even going to speculated about their budget (leaked by a certain someone in currently in Mother Russia) I will just say its a xxxxload.

The NSA is largest employer of mathematicians in the US.. that means that they hire the most mathematicians on planet Earth (which means the solar system-> galaxy-> known universe).

It begs the question why?  Why do you need a classified number of mathematicians?

This will also enable us to keep U.S. communications secure and maintain the country’s ability to exploit new, advanced foreign communications systems.

I admire big visionaries.  The fact that the NSA knows how important crypto is really says a lot.

Here is some declassified history of the NSA for your research:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/early_history_nsa.pdf

I am not a fan of unchecked power and unregulated black budgets but I am a huge fan of the NSA.  I know that is not popular but the NSA is incredible and I hope they keep pushing advanced mathematics and the next level.

 

**note:  maybe one day the NSA will be international and do bigger research in advanced mathematics.**