Quite an interesting story, and it makes me wonder what modern stories are covers for intelligence capabilities. I feel there must be more of them, since computers and modern communication have created so many opportunities to spy.
Hello Paul,
Thanks very much for your response! Goes without saying that I bow to your more expert knowledge. Your book has been on my Amazon wish list for a while, but I’d never seen it as anything other than “from other sellers” (and I’m always wary about doing that as I’ve never been sure how much money — if any — makes it to the author).
For the record, this piece was originally written in 2015 based on my notes from a series of public lectures I attended then on WW1 intelligence and how the telegram was broken. When I was cleaning out some stuff last night, I realised I’d never published it, so quickly cross-checked key bits against the various general histories of intelligence / WW1 / Dilly and Bletchley I had to hand and published it.
I now very much wish your own book had been on those shelves! Sounds like it would have caught a lot more things.
I’ll make some quick rewrites based on the info you provided here and that is on your blog tonight.
Do you have a preferred online retail source for your book? It sounds like there’s alot more about this I can still read, which is both depressing and exciting in equal measure! I can also then add a direct link to it within the main article."
Quite an interesting story, and it makes me wonder what modern stories are covers for intelligence capabilities. I feel there must be more of them, since computers and modern communication have created so many opportunities to spy.
There’s even a term for it - “parallel construction” and it’s relatively common.
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"John Bull
Jan 18, 2018
Hello Paul, Thanks very much for your response! Goes without saying that I bow to your more expert knowledge. Your book has been on my Amazon wish list for a while, but I’d never seen it as anything other than “from other sellers” (and I’m always wary about doing that as I’ve never been sure how much money — if any — makes it to the author). For the record, this piece was originally written in 2015 based on my notes from a series of public lectures I attended then on WW1 intelligence and how the telegram was broken. When I was cleaning out some stuff last night, I realised I’d never published it, so quickly cross-checked key bits against the various general histories of intelligence / WW1 / Dilly and Bletchley I had to hand and published it. I now very much wish your own book had been on those shelves! Sounds like it would have caught a lot more things. I’ll make some quick rewrites based on the info you provided here and that is on your blog tonight. Do you have a preferred online retail source for your book? It sounds like there’s alot more about this I can still read, which is both depressing and exciting in equal measure! I can also then add a direct link to it within the main article."
time to re-read Cryptonomicon and all the "if I decrypt this message and act on it, they will know that I decrypted it and change the code"
Jára Cimrman spotted
How did they accomplish this without a PM reminding them to get alignment?