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Ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? The WW2 part shows a team going through elaborate measures to create a plausible way that the allies can find out wha
by not2b 4y ago
Ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? The WW2 part shows a team going through elaborate measures to create a plausible way that the allies can find out what the Germans are up to without revealing that they can read all of their messages. They would tell a submarine to surface at a particular location at a particular time and report what they see, for instance, and the sub crew would have no idea why, to produce a plausible explanation of why some German action was discovered.
Parallel construction often means they hide how they got the original information from the court and from the defense.
- rpeden 4y agoThe neat thing is those parts of Cryptonomicon were largely based on things that actually happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources