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Why NSA Rules Say No to Smartphones, No to Texting, Yes to Podcasts
The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”
The vibe on “No Such Podcast” is relaxed, but Potts confessed to feeling some pressure to apply for the host job from his co-workers, who knew that he had a background in TV news, at the NBC affiliate in Baltimore, his home town. Wicks’s favorite episode of the podcast is “The Women of NSA: Codemakers and Codebreakers.” It concerns Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a Shakespeare aficionado who, during the Second World War, cracked the German Enigma machine, using pencil and paper, and also Debora Plunkett, who got into code-breaking in the nineteen-eighties. Wicks’s co-host on “The Women of NSA” was John Parker, who once worked at Medieval Times, selling swords, shields, and knights’ helmets.
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