[Milsurplus] Sixty year old IFF gear security lapse

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Sun Jul 18 23:56:02 EDT 2004


The Germans did roughly the same thing with their receivers used for navigating
the 'beams' to bomb England in WW II. I've read they only discovered how it worked
by reverse engineering the sets from crashed planes and discovering an abnormally
high sensitivity. (The Wizard War ???)

-John

William Donzelli wrote:

> I always thought the spoofind was a dumb idea - the military, as you
> pointed out, did not go all the way. Just the fact of having the alpha
> characters in the type number was a huge red flag.
> plan (predates radar and IFF).
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288 at osfn.org





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