Monday, August 07, 2006
(Phone) Numbers Stations mystery uncovered at last..
Don't we all remember the "Lincolnshire Poacher" and "CherryRipe" call signs?
Harmless Nostalgia section: For three months, mysterious telephone numbers have been appearing on the Craigslist classified ad site which, when called, play recordings which sound much like shortwave numbers stations used by certain governments to communicate with intelligence agents in the field who are unreachable by other means. Now the secret behind these phone numbers stations has been revealed.
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."
These details as to how to "Make your own Mein Fraulein station" have now been removed from Craigslist, URL at gulfport.craigslist.org/mis/190448086.html
However brief details can still be found on the web at
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/05/
phone-numbers-stations-mystery-revealed-at-defcon/
Harmless Nostalgia section: For three months, mysterious telephone numbers have been appearing on the Craigslist classified ad site which, when called, play recordings which sound much like shortwave numbers stations used by certain governments to communicate with intelligence agents in the field who are unreachable by other means. Now the secret behind these phone numbers stations has been revealed.
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."
These details as to how to "Make your own Mein Fraulein station" have now been removed from Craigslist, URL at gulfport.craigslist.org/mis/190448086.html
However brief details can still be found on the web at
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/05/
phone-numbers-stations-mystery-revealed-at-defcon/
# posted by uv : 3:48 AM
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