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Robert Sesek
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Robert Sesek's personal blog at robert.sesek.com covers security and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Robert Sesek's posts on leaked NSA codename lists, such as the ECI compartments list, as sources in discussions of NSA activity and government backdoors in encryption.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
To add another dimension to this, personally i think that the Crypto AG relationship is what is referred to as "HISTORY" in this leaked NSA ECI codenames list. https://robert.sesek.com/2014/10/nsa_s_eci_compartments.html > HISTORY HST NCSC (TS//SI//NF) Protects NSA and certain commercial cryptologic equipment manufacturer relationships.
Comment linking /2014/10/nsa_s_eci_compartments.html
on “A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)”Submitted Unraveling NSA's TURBULENCE Programs as a story · 153 points
HN discussionThe article describes two NSA systems almost as something made for Google: "The cooperative agreement and reference to a “tailored solution” strongly suggest that Google and the NSA built a device or a technique for monitoring intrusions into the company’s networks. That would give the NSA valuable information for its so-called active defense system, which uses a combination of automated sensors and algorithms to de…
Comment linking /2014/9/unraveling_nsa_s_turbulence_programs.html
on “Google’s NSA alliance: Deals between Silicon Valley and the security state”Submitted Debugging Mach Ports (2012) as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> The classified stuff wasn’t really that siloed. He had access to everything CIA, DIA, NSA, etc. He talked about this in his book. Searching for evidence of aliens was one of the first things he did when he got access. Not to be pedantic but this isn't entirely true. There is a set of what the NSA call "core secrets" that were never leaked, these were all classified at ECI. https://robert.sesek.com/2014/10/nsa_s_ec…
Comment linking /2014/10/nsa_s_eci_compartments.html
on “US conducted ‘multi-decade’ secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says”
