[Spooks] Mysterial to Mein Fraulien solved!

[Zack Widup]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Colin Keigher wrote:

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> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/05/phone-numbers-stations-mystery-revealed-at-defcon/
> 
> "For three months, mysterious telephone numbers have been appearing on
> the Craigslist classified ad site which, when called, play recordings
> which sound much like shortwave numbers stations used by certain
> governments to communicate with intelligence agents in the field who
> are unreachable by other means. Now the secret behind these phone
> numbers stations has been revealed.
> 
> 
> The numbers stations, placed on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
> telephone numbers, were created by several people who attended the Los
> Angeles 2600 meeting in May of this year, apparently just for the hell
> of it.
> 
> The stations, which used one-time pads for encryption, "were an
> experiment to try to estimate the size, power, and organizational
> capacity of the online cryptographic community," according to a
> statement on the group's web site."
> 
> At least it is all solved now.
> 
> - Colin Keigher

Cool!  At least part of it is solved. I have two questions, though. First 
off, what did the messages say?  Secondly, I wonder what they learned from 
the experiment?

Zack