[CW] CW lives
Ken Brown
ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net
Tue Jun 29 03:13:54 EDT 2010
A couple of snippets from Washington Post article about recently busted
alleged Russian spies.
> But for the most part, they contacted each other the old-fashioned
> way, through furtive exchanges in city parks, or with bags of cash
> hidden along country roads, and even by radio with Morse code.
> But the FBI must have been clapping its collective hands when it
> discovered the primitive radio techniques the Russians were using:
> high speed "burst transmissions.” The Cold War-era technique requires
> the sending party to record a coded Morse code message on a tape, then
> shoot it through the air in a millisecond.
>
> They were easy picking for the FBI, once it knew where to listen: Bugs
> in the defendants’ residences picked up “the irregular electronic
> clicking sounds associated with the receipt of coded radio
> transmissions,” its affidavit states.
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