NSA AMA

NSA AMA

Just don't expect an answer anytime soon.

It's... Complicated.

Originally shared by Alex Scrivener

The NSA's Crypto Cat and her friends are a set of trademark-registered kids' characters who have appeared for more than a decade in promotional materials like coloring books that the NSA uses it to encourage kids to grow up to be spies.

Motherboard's Jason Koebler filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency to find out "how much money the NSA spent designing, printing, and distributing a physical hard copy of the coloring book." The request went in in April 2015; in December 2015, the agency responded with a note informing Koebler that it would take between three and four years before they could answer his question.
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/11/nsa-says-it-will-take-four-yea.html#more-443008

Comments

  1. Timothy StreetFebruary 3, 2016 at 6:52 AM

    , , , , and this is the bureaucracy responsible for warning of an immediate potential threat . . . .  (btw: does the book come with crayons?)

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  2. Drew McCarthyFebruary 3, 2016 at 7:10 AM

    No crayons. Invisible markers.

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