[IP] numbers stations
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From: Kurt Albershardt <kurt@xxxxxx>
Date: November 17, 2004 1:35:04 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: numbers stations
Shortwave radio bands, ignored by commercial broadcasters because of
their low fidelity, have long been home to government activity --
whether for national broadcasts such as the BBC World Service, Voice of
America and Radio France International, or propaganda broadcasts from
the likes of Radio Havana or the U.S.-backed Radio Free Iraq.
Meanwhile, for the last 30 years an altogether more curious kind of
international station has been noted on the airwaves.
Across the world, high-powered transmitters with global reach are
broadcasting seemingly meaningless strings of numbers or letters, along
with a lot of buzzing and beeping noises.
Some have speculated that the signals from these "numbers stations" are
operated by drug cartels. However, it's more likely they're run by
intelligence agencies, as tacitly acknowledged by the British
government, and accidentally by the Cubans.
<http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html>
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