Anyone recognize the paper tape format on page 103? I wonder if they included some hidden message in it.<p>EDIT: I manually transcribed the clearest part of the tape to binary (the start of the tape is the center of the poster, and it's viewed from behind at the part I transcribed), and pasted it into the converter at:
<a href="https://v2.cryptii.com/ita2/text" rel="nofollow">https://v2.cryptii.com/ita2/text</a><p>Binary: "00100 00011 01100 01001 00100 00101 00111 10110 00001 01010 00110 11000 01010 00100 10010 00001 00011 01001 00001 01010 00101 10100 00110 10110 010001 00100 00010 111001 10100 111101 00110 00101 00100 00111 01100 00110 10111 00111 00001 00100 01110 11000 01100 10000 01010 00110 11001 00111 10000 00110 11000 01100 00101 00000 110101 101001 00011 01100 01001 00100 00011 01110 10100 00110 00001 11110 00001 11100 00001 01100 10000 00101 00100 11100 00011 10000 00001 01010 00110 00011 10010 10010 10101 00100 00011 00110 01001 00001 01001 00100 10000 11000"<p>Decoded: " and superior leadership his unique contributionsand achievements materially aided to"<p>Decoded, with the mysterious sixth bits deleted: " and superior leadership mhvis unique contributionsghand achievements materially aided to"<p>Unless the sixth bits have some hidden meaning, this appears to be just management's praise for somebody. It's tedious to transcribe manually, and a lot of it is unreadable, so I'll stop here.
A had a few NCSC security posters that look like they came from the same art department, which I scanned:<p>Uncle Sam pointing: I want to protect the information in YOUR computer.
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/e0a67w9.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/e0a67w9.jpg</a><p>Santa shooshing: He does not give away PASSWORDS. SHOULD YOU?
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/ZZDXBBn.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/ZZDXBBn.jpg</a><p>Pirate and Spy: Pirate or Thief? Respect Copyright. It's the law.
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/Oa8DDeU.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/Oa8DDeU.jpg</a><p>And I took screenshots from that PDF of my favorites:<p>Magician pulling rabbit out of hat: No Trick to Security. It's Just Common Sense. <a href="https://i.imgur.com/9EvTtsI.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/9EvTtsI.png</a><p>People with safe dials in their mouths: Put Security Where Your Mouth Is.
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/WAbAEuM.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/WAbAEuM.png</a><p>Hot pink poster with James Dean in a sultry pose with his arm draped around a safe: Up tight and out of sight. (I'll refrain from cracking any safe sex jokes!) <a href="https://i.imgur.com/dBv13kU.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/dBv13kU.png</a>
Some trippy posters in there. My favorite was the one where all of the NSA employees had lock mouths.<p>I was surprised how religious some of these were, beyond just "Merry Christmas, don't forget about security"<p>e.g "Christian ideals created freedom"
You know,the scary thing about the US intelligence community isn't that they all are "after out liberties" or "againsy our privacy". My experience and encounters related to the IC scare me because they genuinely believe they're the good guys who're on the right side of justice. The real scary part is that <i>they</i> are scared of what will happen if they don't do something (where something entails disregarding laws and the will of the people). I would rather they be "after me" than scared of me.<p>I hope academics consider this before getting into bed with them. They don't just have a subersive mission,they're making decisions out of fear.
I hope the "That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the <i>state</i> by the <i>state</i> for the <i>state</i> shall not perish from the Earth" (with "under God" struck out) poster meant something other than its literal meaning...
Kind of unnerving how a lot of those propaganda posters would be almost ironic to use in today's societal setting; or maybe its more unsettling how most people today don't care about having their rights infringed upon.
What strikes me (besides NSA apparently meaning 'Non-Secular Americans') is that a lot of these posters don't have the design flair and inspiration of, say, WWII propaganda posters.
Simple question about these (great) posters : whats their legal statuts regarding IP ? Possible use for commercial purpose ? Obligation to mention the source ? I'd love to use them for presentation about security.<p>Any link to information about that would be very welcome too.
Might be tangibly related -- and honestly I have no dog in this fight -- but it seems that a certain sect of our political parties really are trying to eliminate or counter the narrative that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values must have complete blinders on when it comes to history of this country, and just flipping through some posters from the 50's and 60s made it very apparent that it was the prevailing value in this country. Say what you want for bigotry, the patriarchy, or whathaveyounot, but you cannot deny the impact, and the unifying value system this country used to all share which is yet another reason, among many, for the large divisions in our society today.
> "Don't TALK yourself to death!"<p>That's macabre - I interpret it as "leak classified information and we will kill you"