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On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s
IBM built Harvest, a specialized code-breaking computer for the NSA in the 1960s. The system represented early supercomputing technology developed for signals intelligence and cryptanalysis purposes.
Why it matters: Security historians and policy experts should understand how the NSA's historical computing capabilities shaped modern surveillance infrastructure and cryptographic requirements.
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