NSA

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17 statements about NSA, every show

FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
John von Neumann was guarded by military personnel on his deathbed
“One of Shannon's fellow NSA scientific advisors, John Van Neumann, was watched around the clock by uniformed military personnel when he was on his deathbed.”
David Senra Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 34:00 How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Matched the Skill of NSA TAO Managers
“And it had the ability to do that with like the level of skill that you would have of the manager of a TAO team at NSA right now.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 10:25 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Stamos: OpenAI and Anthropic Should Not Train Models to Hide Intrusions
“What you should be training it to do is find bugs. You should be training to write proof of concepts. You should be training it to do all the defensive stuff. You should not be training it. To hide it. To hide all those things. Like if the US government wants …”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 24:38 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Amazon hosts Anthropic's AI models across classified government cloud environments
“Amazon hosts Anthropics models in the, in what they call bedrock. This includes in all of the classified spaces. So if the NSA is using Anthropics models. It is running in AWS secret cloud or top secret cloud.”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 0:26 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
TBPN Assertion Supported
Coogan: Anthropic Halted Mythos After Model Hacked NSA Systems in Red-Teaming
“There was, of course, that news that the NSA commented that Mythos was able to hack into a bunch of their systems. That was during a red teaming exercise. The unprecedented intervention led Anthropik to halt all access to comply with the new rule.”
John Coogan Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 27:36 Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Early Oracle Won Deals Across Major US Intelligence Agencies
“We had won several deals, the CIA, Navy intelligence, air force intelligence, and the NSA.”
David Senra Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 21:55 How Larry Ellison Thinks
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Hanslovan: Military cyber intelligence is used for lethal "kinetic uninstalls"
“And you're like, okay, I got to gather this intelligence on this person, but by you gathering that intelligence on that person, the kinetic side of the military does what they call a kinetic uninstall. That means usually they dropped a bomb on a bad guy.”
Kyle Hanslovan Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 7:00 He got rejected by 60 VCs—then grew to $100M ARR. | Kyle, founder of Huntress · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hanslovan: Multiple foreign nation-state hackers often compromise the same target simultaneously
“When you're gathering intelligence, sometimes many countries are trying to gather intelligence on the same target. So we sometimes might know that other adversaries could be on the same exact computer and we would see them and going, we know they're there, but…”
Kyle Hanslovan Sep 23, 2024 ▶ 8:46 He got rejected by 60 VCs—then grew to $100M ARR. | Kyle, founder of Huntress · PMF Show
a16z Opinion
Moore: Maryland's federal assets make it the US cyber capital
“When you have the NSA, and you have U.S. Cyber Command, and you have the Naval Academy, and you have the FBI, there is no reason for you not to be the cyber capital of this country.”
Governor Wes Moore Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 16:50 The Next Generation of Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Wes Moore
Haidt: Tech platforms cannot stop foreign disinformation without intelligence agency coordination
“Yes, of course they took some easy steps, but there is no way they can get a handle on this. This has to be, and I think they call it for this. This has to be a sort of a government-wide partnership between Coordinated between the CIA, the FBI, NSA, Facebook, …”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 24:52 Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Weiss: Unit 8200 focuses solely on intelligence collection, unlike the NSA
“That's a separate body. So there was, so that's actually a difference from the NSA. The NSA is responsible both for securing the infrastructures and intelligence monitoring. The ISNU or AD-D-E-Hundred is only responsible for intelligence.”
Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time
Dan Held: 50% chance Hal Finney was Satoshi, 20% chance the NSA
“This is super tough, but maybe like 50% Hal Finney 30% Nick Szabo and 20% NSA.”
Dan Held Jul 2, 2021 ▶ 8:53 Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Wilcox: The NSA led a government faction opposing early HTTPS encryption
“There was a faction within the US government led by the NSA that objected to the development of HTTPS.”
Zooko Wilcox Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 1:36 Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
a16z Assertion Supported
Edward Snowden exfiltrated NSA data undetected for months
“NSA, which is part of the Department of Defense, that's what Edward Snowden did. And he wasn't caught in the act over a period of months doing something that had no reasonable association with his job, ah, at all.”
Ash Carter Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:26 a16z Podcast | Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Every major government agency and corporation will inevitably face a Snowden
“And so, not only will there be a Snowden for the NSA, there will be a Snowden for the Chinese state security agency. There will be a Snowden for GCHQ. There will be a Snowden for Citibank, and on, and basically we'll all have Snowdens.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:00 a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Aaronson: Snowden documents revealed NIST pseudorandom standard was NSA-backdoored
“In fact, you know, NIST did have a standard for pseudorandom bits, which we learned a few years ago because of the Snowden documents was backdoored. By most likely by the NSA, right?”
Scott Aaronson Jun 29, 2018 ▶ 15:02 Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Supported
Chen: NSA actively investigates quantum computing for prime factorization
“This is why the NSA and other state researchers are actively investigating how to use quantum computers and new algorithms to solve this particular mathematical problem.”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 22:31 Quantum Computing: A Primer

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