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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
If you have broken the enemies crypto AND he doesn't know you have - then you can also send fake messages which they are going to believe. So the Brits could have sent a message ordering a few panzer armies from Normandy to the Pas de Calai
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
It's an interesting bit of military psychology that while every side in WWII broke their enemy's codes - all of them believed all their own codes to be unbreakable!
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
It wasn't a nonce as such - it was a key exchange, slightly more like a salt in modern terms. One of the main failings of the Germans was their love of formal introductions and sign offs in official messages, especially by the navy which ot
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
Supposedly Buran's launch pad is also due to this. Because it's pad was built on top of an earlier Apollo pad the shuttle launches in the wrong orientation and has to make a roll just after takeoff to head into orbit. The Russians copied th
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
And even the Daily Mail can be used to line the cat's litter tray!
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
Because most of these are bundle deals to HW makers. Samsung buys 10M OEM licenses for Windows7 for netbooks and MS throws in 1M Win7 phone licenses for free to make it's numbers look good. It's like newspapers handing out free copies to ho
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
Amateurs! One modern leader of an impoverished 3rd world country managed to fake an entire nuclear, biological, chemical warfare capability and the ICBMs necessary to attack Britain within 45mins. And he did it so successfully we were force
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by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
All crypto systems fail when faced with human operators! There was one story of an Afrika corp operator who sent HIT - LER as the 2 'secret' triplets every day for the entire North Africa campaign. Then disastrously he was captured! It's an