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The 'number station' sending mystery messages to Iran
- SockThief 7mo agoHere's a better link: https://www.rferl.org/a/mystery-numbers-station-persian-signal-iran-war/33700659.html https://www.rferl.org/a/mystery-numbers-station-persian-sign...
- thenthenthen 7mo agoBBC, Deutsche Welle, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Sound of Hope etcetc actually setup special stations around the soviet bloc countries in an action that could viewed as equally clandestine as the jammers that were trying to silence them.
- thenthenthen 7mo agoRelevant paper here: https://www.academia.edu/49343628/Broadcasting_Infrastructures_and_Electromagnetic_Fatality_Listening_to_Enemy_Radio_in_Socialist_China?email_work_card=reading-history https://www.academia.edu/49343628/Broadcasting_Infrastructur...
- sanjayjc 7mo agoGiven the connection with a one-time pad, I wonder why the article refers to the technique as "cryptology". Wouldn't "cryptography" be the correct term, given the security afforded by a one-time pad is unmatched?
- koolala 7mo agoIt is so creepy how it is read outloud by a human voice.
- GJim 7mo agoSir should get a copy of the Conet Project.... ...five CD's full of numbers station recordings. Just what every post-raver needs. I believe they are available for free download from archive.org and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project
- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- moralestapia 7mo agoOne needs to be wearing The Verdant Ring of Ciphered Arithmetic to understand what's going on.