Numbers stations, as they’re known, have been used by intelligence services since World War I to communicate with agents in the field, but have become increasingly rare in the digital age. With the Internet shut down by authorities in Iran, this Cold War relic has found new life. According to one group of aficionados that tracks these age-old spy tools, it’s the first new numbers station in years.
“the easiest possible thing is good enough. my brain doesn’t spend more than 0.3 seconds looking at something before accepting it as good and moving on, so neither does anyone else probably”