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VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment
IO ERROR writes "The mysterious phone number stations appearing on Craigslist for the last three months, which resembled their shortwave radio cousins, and which Slashdot reported on in June, were an experiment devised by security researcher Strom Carlson and a group of Los Angeles hackers to determine if encrypted messages could be passed using unwitting third parties to foil traffic analysis by hostile intelligence agencies. Carlson and the hackers presented their findings at DEFCON earlier today and gave away CDs with "Make your own Mein Fraulein station" kits and posted one final number station for people to try to decrypt."
I'm still more interested in the orginals!
Shortwave numbers stations are a social experiment being conducted by the aliens. They'll present their findings at GALAXICON on July 8, 2047.
This guy's the limit!
Back in my day, we called that a prank.
Ha. Hah.
*golf clap*
And there will be a guest talk by John Titor on implementing secure communication links using time travel.
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> I thin k we're moving to a society where just being suspected of a cr i me wi ll b e so ba d (in terms of government harassment like no-fly lists, wiretapping, etc) that the most important t h ing w i ll not be to m ake sure that the government can't read what you communicate, but rather have no reason to suspect you're doing anything they don't like. With current advances in data mining, it's going to be an arms race - the stenographers against the miners.
A little analysis reveals your cause for concern.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Shortwave numbers stations are a social experiment being conducted by the aliens.
Actually they are mostly tenticle-enlargement spam, but we don't have the proper char-set support yet. Hopefully this will be included in Vista.
23 42 13 75 24 53 20 45
12 43 88 42 90 45 23 23
45 63 00 06 34 64 22 64
32 54 99 99 23 54 32 22
The decrypted message is: "There are motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin plane."
Wow, fighting it out with typewriters against picks and shovels. Wait till the steganographers get in the act...
rj
Sorry, the title was supposed to read "Stenography >> Encryption"
You should probably use a bit-rotation method instead of just a shift.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Dude is that why I keep seeing pr0n that looks slightly mangled? I thought it was just amateur encoding jobs... now you're telling me i'm watching encrypted messages while.... NOW I feel dirty... it's like some guy was talking to me while i was... ewwwww...
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.