[algorias]

Sorry, but this seems like cartoon logic to me. What power would knowing the word PANDA give me in this case? None. What knowledge does it give me? That the US does signals intelligence, and that someone on wikipedia/HN claims that such SI includes programs X,Y,Z, without any actual evidence.

For all I know, SJG picked a cool sounding word a 16 year old would like, e.g. SHARK, and it just happened to be an actual code word.

[LanceH]

I think they had to do this once before when Roosevelt was photographed and the code word stamped at the top was legible. I think they gave up when the puzzle palace book revealed the replacement word around '90.