Kryptos - Beyond K4

Intermission Part Three

kryptosfan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:51:01 +0000

Rhizome.org Editorial Fellow Yin Ho wrote up a new piece with new interview questions AND answers from James Sanborn. It’s worth a look.

-Kryptosfan

p.s. Started a PR section.

Tagged: Hidden Information, James Sanborn, kryptos, Rhizome, Yin Ho

Intermission Part Two

kryptosfan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:27:32 +0000

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: Megaupload, Megavideo, Random demonstrations of governmental power in the face of public opposition to SOPA and PIPA

Stop SOPA, PIPA and ACTA

kryptosfan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:38:41 +0000

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: ACTA, PIPA, SOPA

Intermission

kryptosfan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:03:06 +0000

The Cryptology Channel Presents

Famous Secrets
“The Mystery Behind Kryptos”

Thanks Chris!

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: Chris, Cragen, cryptography, cryptology, ed scheidt, Famous Secrets, James Sanborn, k4, kryptos, The Cryptology Channel, The Mystery Behind Kryptos

Initial NSA Response to Kryptos FOIA Request

kryptosfan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:46:51 +0000

In response to my revised NSA FOIA, I got this nice letter in the mail yesterday. I was a little surprised by their generosity and I’m left hoping the first requester does follow through on their end. Makes me curious to know who they are though…

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: FOIA, kryptos, NSA

The NSA Responded

kryptosfan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:47:48 +0000

I’m about 11 hours from a scanner. I was surprised by their answer…

UPDATE: Vomit Comet touches down, upload delayed by flu

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: FOIA, kryptos, NSA

Initial CIA Response to the 2nd Kryptos FOIA

kryptosfan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:21:32 +0000

Found the initial response to my revised 2nd CIA Kryptos FOIA. Looks like this one got mixed up in the mail a little while…

Is this an appropriate time to write a thank-you letter to the CIA?

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: 2nd, FOIA, kryptos

The latest they could respond for the Kryptos FOIAs

kryptosfan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:14:00 +0000

Still waiting on the NSA Kryptos FOIPA request to show up in the mail. This is the latest day I can figure that the response could arguably show up in the mail and still fall within the 20 day required response time.

Nothing yet…

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: FOIA, kryptos

CIA Kryptos FOIA #1 Answered

kryptosfan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:00:36 +0000

So just to refresh everyone’s memory, these are the results from the first Kryptos FOIA from 2005 now in our own grubby little hands. Enjoy!

My revised Kryptos FOIA Request

CIA response letter

Crappy picture of Kryptos

Kryptos CIA Art Bulletin, page 1 and page 2

Kryptos Art Announcement of Sanborn’s Selection

Sanborn’s Letter to the CIA about Kryptos, page 1 and page 2

William Webster’s comments at the Kryptos dedication, page 1 and page 2

Original Anti-Kryptos Flaming Thread

Anti-Kryptos Petition, page 1 and page 2

Apologetic Response to Anti-Kryptos Sentiment

Non-Apologetic Response to Anti-Kryptos Sentiment

Official Response to Anti-Kryptos Sentiment

Anti-Kryptos Backpedaling

Didn’t see most of that coming. Looks like there were still a few Kryptos surprises.

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: cia, FOIA, kryptos

Kryptos FOIA Day Twenty One

kryptosfan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:02:12 +0000

We’ve hit that magical number where we are over 20 days past my submission of the Kryptos FOIA letters.

So far only the FBI has responded and without any tangible information. I’m not sure how this works but I figure worst case scenario they don’t count the 20ish days until they receive it. From the FBI letter, it seems like it takes 6 days to get to that part of the world from my part of the world. That would put us at October 18th as the possible day the CIA and NSA received their letters giving them another 6 days or until November 8th to get their response out. Conceivably that would mean they could just shove it in the mail and it would show up on November 14th and still be within the limit where they can charge me whatever they want. Theoretically. Practically, I’m hoping they just give it all to me for free and my only heartache is scanning it all.

Wouldn’t that be nice?

-Kryptosfan

Tagged: FOIA, kryptos