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"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)
I should perhaps look into having my paranoia treated.
Is there anyone else reluctant to open a pdf from the NSA?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd wager a guess that [2] was necessary for messages using it as a code, e.g., page number+word number, or page number and then the Nth word or letter.
Nope. The real answer is, the NSA is all about communications -- which isn't just electronics: it includes a huge element of linguistics. The Bible angle: when a new tribe or culture is contacted, the very first thing that happens is that Christian missionaries get all excited and do their best to go there to spread the gospel. To do this, they have to learn the language sufficiently well to translate the Bible. So y…
This is pretty optimistic, in quite a few dimensions... :-)
Is there anyone else reluctant to open a pdf from the NSA?
You can use http://www.zamzar.com/url/ and then convert it to an image file.
https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://www.nsa.gov/public...
The article mentions the listening bug in the Great Seal in a side note, but it's arguably an even better hack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
I was glad to learn that "The Thing" was apparently designed by Léon Theremin who invented in 1928 (!) the famous "electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)
I stopped reading, copied the exact same text to post as a comment and see it's already at the top...
Is there anyone else reluctant to open a pdf from the NSA?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. The real answer is, the NSA is all about communications -- which isn't just electronics: it includes a huge element of linguistics. The Bible angle: when a new tribe or culture is contacted, the very first thing that happens is that Christian missionaries get all excited and do their best to go there to spread the gospel. To do this, they have to learn the language sufficiently well to translate the Bible. So y…
Looks like there are folks working on the Klingon version of the Bible. This is pretty optimistic, in quite a few dimensions... :-)
http://www.josephrichardson.tv/polari-bible.html
(Implications guaranteed to set a few Church-men's heads exploding.)
"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)
It's as if Obama was never indoctrinated by Communist Frank Marshall Davis (who was under FBI investigation for we don't know what) and learned to hate white people, capitalism, self-made people, small-business owners... or as Obama would surely call them, the proletariat.
Crazy times.