Has any body bothered to point out to the nice Californian Representative that blurring the picture would be pointless because it would give a potential terrorist points of interest? Publicly requesting these items to be blurred because they could be threatened and then looking at the map will do nothing but make it easier to find them.
Ballard is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for the USS Scorpion. I read through this a few weeks ago, and thought I saw a reference to it being a dual mission there, and it supposedly wasn't shrouded in secracy, but was partially intended to find the wreck to check on possible radiation leaks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
On a similar note, I was wondering about the defomations in many of the lines. Anyone that's used a good ball point pen (and some crappy ones too) has left unintended marks on the paper while writing or drawing. But, it is entirely possible that they were deliberate to expand the code's dictionary/key.
If they were deliberate, then the code maker thinks her/himself doubly clever for such a subtlety, because it would be easily overlooked. Perhaps that's another clue.
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Has any body bothered to point out to the nice Californian Representative that blurring the picture would be pointless because it would give a potential terrorist points of interest? Publicly requesting these items to be blurred because they could be threatened and then looking at the map will do nothing but make it easier to find them.
Ballard is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for the USS Scorpion. I read through this a few weeks ago, and thought I saw a reference to it being a dual mission there, and it supposedly wasn't shrouded in secracy, but was partially intended to find the wreck to check on possible radiation leaks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
On a similar note, I was wondering about the defomations in many of the lines. Anyone that's used a good ball point pen (and some crappy ones too) has left unintended marks on the paper while writing or drawing. But, it is entirely possible that they were deliberate to expand the code's dictionary/key. If they were deliberate, then the code maker thinks her/himself doubly clever for such a subtlety, because it would be easily overlooked. Perhaps that's another clue.