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.
What does that god damned slop image add to the article? Fuck I hate sloppers, whenever I see someone slopping I instantly become about a million times less trusting of them since apparently they can’t perceive detail and/or distinguish good and bad things.
I love the term “slopper” and I will use it at every opportunity.
Put it much more eloquently than I could’ve. Just makes them seem lazy, which calls into question the amount of effort they put into research.
Considering I heard about this in Feb on some ham radio YT channel, and I am not all connected to that community, i doubt these people know much
“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”
while early reception reports were consistent with a Middle Eastern transmitter, some direction-finding results suggest the signal may originate not from Iran but from somewhere closer to the Red Sea. That raises the possibility that an Israeli, Western, or Arab intelligence service may be broadcasting into Iran rather than out of it.
also :
An Italian ham radio operator, writing under the name Iz0kba Lorenzo, argues for Iranian origin, citing the signal’s strength across Southern and Central Europe, its frequency range—commonly used for military and diplomatic communications in the Middle East—and a voice cadence that experienced monitors say resembles known Iranian utility transmissions. This suggests that Iranian intelligence may be giving orders to agents abroad.
I don’t think it’s Iranian, if it were the US would’ve bombed the transmission location by now.
it’s in Farsi because it’s for people within Iran, or at least the ham people I saw talking about this last week had suggested
why would Iranians broadcast their uber secret codes in Farsi lol
Those are one time codes. Virtually unbreakable if implemented correctly.
Same reason the US uses English, the Russians use Russian, etc. language doesn’t matter really.
cadence
Anyone using this word is either PMC or GPT.
A lot of space launch news followers also use it, in reference to the average time between launches of a specific rocket model.
Or worse… French.
Why do they gotta use the AI slop picture tho?
Not sure what you’re talking about. I love listening to 7.910 kkHz
kkkHz
Meersham?
Meersham’s penis doctor trying to get to him via alternative means because his voicemail is full
Thanks, ChatGPT.
Neat!
