Much of TAO’s [NSA's Tailored Access Operations] work is labeled ECI, for “exceptionally controlled information,” material so sensitive it was initially stored only in safes. When the cumulative weight of the safes threatened the integrity of NSA’s engineering building a few years ago, one agency veteran said, the rules were changed to allow locked file cabinets.
Scott Shane, Nicole Perlroth, and David E. Sanger, “Security Breach at the NSA,” 2017
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