Some NSA advice for your phone security

It probably does not hurt to go over this every so often!

To turn off and restart your phone once a week is probably one good idea to make sure things are erased, recent updates are fully activated etc. 

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week - here's why | ZDNET

No such agency!

Just remembered a very old joke or was it at one time plausible deniability! :-)

"Since President Truman's memo was a classified document,[28] the existence of the NSA was not known to the public at that time. Due to its ultra-secrecy the U.S. intelligence community referred to the NSA as "No Such Agency"." (Source)

How NSA Drives Technological Progress

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Just read “Spinoffs from Spyland/How America’s eavesdropping agency commercializes technology.”

Commercialization By NSA

Here is a quote from the article (emphasis added):

“More than 4,000 programmers work at the NSA, in addition to 960 PhDs and some 1,000 mathematicians known internally as the “math mafia.” Like other federal agencies, the NSA is compelled by law to try to commercialize its R&D. It employs patent attorneys and has a marketing department that is now trying to license inventions like tamper-­proof bags, secure manhole covers, and a “dispersion system” to make sure shredded documents can’t be pieced back together. One startup, Integrata, based in Maryland, exclusively licensed a patent on how to detect intruders on wireless networks.”

According to the article above the NSA holds about 170 patents and the NSA has contributed 100,000s of lines of source code to the open source community.