How Childhood Reading of Cryptography Book Created FBI Record and Security Clearance Issues
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Summary
The article recounts a personal experience with security clearance applications, where the author's childhood reading of a cryptography book led to an FBI record at age 12. This created complications decades later when applying for security clearance, forcing the author to conceal this "sordid past" to obtain clearance. The narrative explores the absurdity of security clearance processes and how innocent childhood activities can create bureaucratic obstacles in adulthood.
Key quotes
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This bizarre incident caused a problem much later when I needed a security clearance.
I learned that I could obtain one only by concealing my sordid past.
A friend named Bob and I read the book 'Secret and Urgent,' by Fletcher Pratt which was an early popular account of codes.
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