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This page contains some of our preview news clippings.
Please note that the information below has been written some time ago
and my have lost its relevance by now. The information is retained here
for historical reasons only.
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Bugging the OPEC office in Vienna
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29 December 2016
In secret NSA documents released by
Edward Snowden in 2010, it was revealed
that both the CIA
and GCHQ
had bugged the OPEC. 1 In 1997,
bugs
were found in the Marriot Hotel in Vienna, in the rooms that were used by
OPEC delegates.
But this was not the first case in which the OPEC was targeted.
In the late 1970s, a sophisticated bug was discovered in a meeting
room at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, hidden behind the wires of the
PA system. It was extremely difficult to detect.
Now fully reverse engineered...
➤ About the OPEC bug
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OPEC = Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Extra opening day Secret Communications 2
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26 November 2016
Following the enormous success of our current exhibition Secret
Communications 2, we have decided to add an extra opening day in
January 2017. For those of you who have not yet visited the exhibition,
or who want to see it again, you have the following options:
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- Saturday 3 December 2016
- Saturday 14 January 2017 ← extra opening day
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11 November 2016
Yesterday was the Dutch premiere of the movie Snowden, in which American
director Oliver Stone tells the story of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden,
who leaked secret documents about the NSA's mass surveillance program to
the press in 2013. In the movie, quite a few crypto and spy gadgets from
our collection are on display in Hank's crypto museum.
At the end of the movie, a live video link with Moscow was established,
through which Edward Snowden himself was able to answer questions from the
public. From an unknown location, he shared his vision on the NSA's activities
and explained to the public what they should do to protect their privacy
and their liberty.
Snowden is a great movie about a very interesting person, and we think
that everyone should see it and take part in the discussion.
➤ About Edward Snowden
➤ About the movie
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This Saturday: exhibition Secret Messages 2
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8 November 2016
Quick reminder for people who are intending to visit our
exhibition Secret Communications 2. This Saturday 12 November 2016
is our first opening day. Doors open at 10:00 AM. We are looking
forward to seeing your and have a chat.
Note that due to local roadworks, you will not be able to get to the
museum in the usual manner. Please check the updated directions on our
announcement page and ignore your navigator.
➤ About the exhibition
Also note that the movie Snowden has its Dutch Premiere this
Thursday 10 November 2016. Crypto Museum supplied many of the
crypto items that you are about to see in this movie.
➤ About the movie Snowden
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31 Oct 2016
When searching the internet for information about the
Enigma cipher machine,
many of you no doubt have come across the 'super
enigma', named Cryptograph, made by Tatjana van Vark in the Netherlands
in 2003.
For the first time, this beautiful piece of art and technology will be
on public display, as Tatjana will be demonstrating it herself on
two opening days of our forthcoming exhibition
Secret Communications 2.
➤ Read more
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16 September 2016
Good news for anyone interested in crypto, security, privacy,
mass surveillance and movies. American film director Oliver Stone has
just released his latest movie called 'Snowden'.
The film features NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden (played by Joseph
Gordon-Levitt) before, during and after leaking secrets about the
NSA's mass surveillance program. Seen as a traitor by some and as
a hero by others, Snowden began to question the legality of the mass
surveillance program whilst working at the CIA office in Geneva (Switzerland).
Interestingly, Crypto Museum supplied the vast majority of cipher and spy
gadgets that are visible in the movie. There is even a complete
cipher museum headed by no one less than Nicolas Cage.
This movie is arguably one of the best and most important
movies made by Oliver Stone in years. It should not be missed.
Dutch premiere: 10 November 2016
➤ Read the full story
➤ About Edward Snowden
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5 September 2016
It is little known that during the
Cold War,
the Dutch intelligence services
carried out extremely secret clandestine operations behind the
Iron Curtain,
together with the American CIA.
In his latest book, historian Cees Wiebes gives a detailed account (in Dutch)
of the operations, the people involved, and the many failures that cost
the lives of numerious operatives.
➤ Read the review
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3 September 2016
For anyone interested in the history of codebreaking, and
Colossus
in particular, there is good news. To celebrate the 75th
anniversary of Colossus,
British programmer Martin Gillow has just released
Virtual Colossus Mark II.
A fully featured virtual copy of the
real one that is on display at TNMOC.
It runs in your browser in
JavaScript and can be used to run real codebreaking programs.
➤ More information (off site)
➤ About Colossus
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Exhibition: Secret Communications 2
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Breaking news: Barbie's crypto typewriter
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1 April 2016
After months of secret research and talking with sources from
several US and UK agencies, Crypto Museum are now able to reveal
the hidden and highly secret features of the Barbie Typewriter,
as made by US toy manufacturer Mattel.
More importantly, the typewriter has been used as the backbone
of a secret spy ring that involved young children as well as adult
look-alikes.
➤ Read the full story
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Deliberate weakening of a cipher algorithm by the NSA
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14 January 2016
In 1980, Dutch company Text Lite introduced the PX-1000, a small
pocket telex that featured high-end DES encryption. In 1983,
when the device was actively marketed by Philips, the NSA intervened
and persuaded Philips to replace DES by an NSA-weakened algorithm.
The Crypto Museum team has now isolated the NSA algorithm and is currently
analysing it for backdoors and deliberate weakening.
➤ More information
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New information about The Thing
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13 January 2016
In 1952, a new type of covert listening device (bug) was found in the
office of the US Ambassador in Moscow. The device was nicknamed
The Thing. It was not connected via wires and did not have its own
power source.
Crypto Museum has now released some new facts about the device and
also about the role of the FBI, the CIA and the Dutch NRP.
➤ More information
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