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This sculpture at CIA headquarters is unsolved after 30 years
Here’s a fun story for a saturday. Sculptor Jim Sanborn was commissioned in 1990 to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters. The sculpture, Kryptos, has 4 cryptographic challenge puzzles embedded in it. While 3 of them have been solved, the 4th has yet to be figured out. Check out more information on Elonka Dunin’s Kryptos […]
Cloud-to-cloud record preservation at the National Archives
Here’s a very interesting interview with Leslie Johnston, the director of digital preservation at NARA, in which she describes “cloud-to-cloud” data transfers as a key process to MARA’s digital preservation efforts. This is another form of “digital deposit” that we’ve been discussing in our GPO digital deposit working group and I hope that we in […]
Final report of 2018-20 FOIA advisory committee now available
I had the honor of serving on the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) FOIA advisory Committee for the 2018-2020 term. Administered by the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), which serves as the chair of the Committee, the FOIA advisory committee brings together 9 members from within the Federal government and 11 non-governmental members […]
Justice Dept annual FOIA summary report miscalculates FOIA release rate
Unredacted, the National Security Archive’s blog, analyzed the latest annual agency FOIA report from the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy (OIP), and found that the report over calculated and misrepresented the government’s release rate of FOIA requests. The FY2019 summary report said that agencies had achieved a government-wide release rate of 94.4% (up […]
HIGH-INCOME NONFILERS OWING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS…
The Treasury Inspector General recently released an audit that the IRS isn’t doing an adequate job of making sure that the highest earners are paying their fair share. Surveys consistently report that most citizens believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes. Party affiliation doesn’t affect their opinion. “Only 6% of Americans think […]
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