[Spooks] Shortwave at the movies

[Derek Glidden]

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:49, Frank(ee) wrote:
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> And what about =ABA Beautiful Mind=BB (Ron Howard, 2001), where this weir=
d
> mathematician works as a cryptographer but runs into psychiatric problems=
,
> where his hallucinations lead him to consider himself a cryptographer of
> numbers messages. Unfortunately I don't remember if we actually get to he=
ar
> numbers messages (think we did), but there are sheets full of numbers (of
> varying length -oddly enough- if I remember well).

The first major scene of his hallucinations involves him going to some
unnamed military facility where they present him with a printout of the
numbers captured from a Russian (IIRC) SW broadcast.

Most of the remaining "crypto" stuff is based on newspaper and magazine
clippings.

It's an interesting fact that one of the symptoms of some forms of
schizophrenia is the tendency to see patterns and connections that don't
really exist in random data/events.  It makes you wonder about some of
the people on this list...   ;)

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usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
    | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -=20

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