Starlink's disruption of the space industry(thespacereview.com)

160 points by mlindner 2 years ago | 208 comments

Review of Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle(thespacereview.com)

22 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 13 comments

Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident (2006)(thespacereview.com)

71 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 17 comments

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons(esa.int)

269 points by Tevias 3 years ago | 62 comments

End of an era: Final Delta IV heavy rocket carries NROL-70 on historic mission(floridamedianow.com)

82 points by nabilhat 2 years ago | 28 comments

SpaceX takes another step toward launching Starship again(arstechnica.com)

32 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 0 comments

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles(theguardian.com)

485 points by bloak 3 years ago | 869 comments

Guardian news article on calls for the US to disclose UFO evidence after a whistleblower claimed the government holds intact alien vehicles.

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)(atlasobscura.com)

502 points by whatever3 2 years ago | 174 comments

Atlas Obscura article from 2016 recounting the history of US government attempts, including by the NSA, to insert backdoors into encryption.

How the Military Will Hack the Election(kenklippenstein.com)

127 points by pavel_lishin 11 days ago | 53 comments

Ken Klippenstein Substack article reporting on Task Force Raider's role in the 2026 US elections and military officers' unease about it.

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president(iwm.org.uk)

127 points by stmw 11 days ago | 44 comments

Imperial War Museums article on Churchill's top secret SIGSALY encrypted telephone hotline to the US President from the Churchill War Rooms.

Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations(ietf.org)

486 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 293 comments

IETF Internet-Draft by Farrell, Badii, Schneier, and Bellovin reflecting on ten years since the Snowden NSA revelations and the resulting security and privacy challenges.