Donkeys and KPIs

I originally posted this entry on our family’s Wordpress blog, back in 2013. I decided to repost here, since it’s still relevant and fits better here anyway… Recently, the NSA declassified 136 issues of their monthly internal publication, “Cryptolog”, and released them in PDF versions for public consumption. (alternate Cryptome archive) As a geek this was/is very exciting for me. Without a great deal of time to read through them, I decided to briefly peruse the edition published the month I was born (Volume V, No 3 – Yes I’m a young whippersnapper) and quickly moved to the article entitled “I had ‘Animal Crackers in my soup,’ but you’ve got a donkey in your WHAT?...