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A few years ago, I was reading about terrorists in Kashmir who realized they were being monitored, so switched to using common words for their terroristic commu
by discardorama 12y ago
A few years ago, I was reading about terrorists in Kashmir who realized they were being monitored, so switched to using common words for their terroristic communications. The same person, talking to X will use "tea bags" for "ammo"; and talking to Y, will use "tea bags", for, well, "tea bags".
Now he makes 2 calls: "I'm out of teabags; can you send some more?". How can you tell what he's talking about?
- drcomputer 12y agoI would monitor and perform analysis for a grammatically structured pattern across the dialogue, instead of focusing on the individual person as a discrete entity. I would treat a dialogue from t(a) to t(b) as a unit to analyze instead, and look for markers that indicate a dialectically independent symmetry between the composition of sentences. If people use word substitution, they are relying on an implicit pattern they can both distinguish "on the face" as code.