[Spooks] 'number stations' on youtube?

[Token]

Yes, while it is tempting to say hide it in plain site, or in something 
innocuous that thousands of people view, once the cat is out of the bag and 
the fact that data is contained is known by an investigating agency, then 
the potential exist for them to know everyone who viewed the 
video/page/file.  Once that is done the potential pool of suspects becomes 
much smaller and manageable.

Looking at the number of views for each one of those videos reveals some 
pretty small numbers.  Sure, the latest ones have thousands, after that 
story hit and the suggestion something mysterious was up.  But the early 
ones often have less than 10 views each.  If it is a message it would not be 
hard for an intelligence agency to find common viewers to narrow prospects, 
or even investigate all of the viewers, with that low number.

You can't do that with a short wave over the air numbers station.  Unless 
you already have a pretty good idea of the location or identity of the asset 
in the field you are not going to narrow down the potential suspects 
appreciably.

T!
Mojave Desert, California, USA




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From: "Rick" <rickhampton at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 8:32 PM
To: "Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations" <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] 'number stations' on youtube?

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> Because people watching "cat" videos can be tracked and logged via trivial 
> methods.
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> Rick
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>> On Apr 28, 2014, at 15:16, Lucien Van Elsen <lucienve at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps of interest, although occam's razor suggests that they have a 
>> much
>> more boring explanation.
>>
>> http://boingboing.net/2014/04/25/the-numbers-station-of-you.html
>>
>> But an interesting concept in any case - why both with a 
>> surely-suspicious
>> shortwave radio these days, when you can hide it amongst cat videos?
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