The EBS Authenticator Word List and other old EBS documents
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At every station, somewhere close to the teletype machine, there was an envelope containing the Authenticator Words for activation of the Emergency Broadcast System. Â It is difficult to imagine a situation when knowledge of the Authenticator Words would have made any difference, because if someone were to have maliciously originated a false National Emergency alert on the teletype circuit, it would have been easy enough to get a copy of the Authenticator Words for that day and authenticate a false alarm. Â Anyway, the Authenticator Words were to remain in a sealed envelope and were to be available to the operator on duty, in the event of an FCC inspection, which was more likely than a nuclear attack, although FCC visits are pretty rare. Â (I've worked as a broadcast technician since 1971 and I have seen an FCC inspector in a broadcast station only once. Â And even that incident wasn't a routine inspection... but that's another story.)
 http://www.ae5d.com/ebs.html
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The NSAââ¬â¢s weird alphabet soup of code names for secret spy programs and hacker tools
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Documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the media have revealed the sometimes strange code names the NSA has used now and in the past for its operations and hacker tools. Hereââ¬â¢s a sampling of the weirdest.
 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2289...tools.html
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