NSA director Alexander's phones
(Updated: September 29, 2014) After a range of articles about how NSA intercepts foreign communications, we now take a look at the equipment that NSA uses to secure their own telecommunications, more specific those of its director. We can do this because last December, the CBS program 60 Minutes offered some unprecedented insights into the NSA headquarters. Of course very limited, but still interesting for those with a sharp eye. Perhaps the most revealing was that for the first time ever it was shown how the office of the director of NSA looks like: The office of NSA director Alexander, December 2013 (click to enlarge) The office of the director is at a corner on the eighth floor of the OPS 2B building, which is the wider and lower one of the two black mirrored glass structures of the NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade . Contrary to what many people would probably expect, the director's office is far from high tech. We see a rather traditional interior with a classic woode...