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US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:57:27 -0400


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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:09:21 -0500
From: John Lyon <jelyon () mac com>
Subject: For IP: US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo
To: dave () farber net

Might be of interest to the IP community:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040510/040510-8.html

Armed with little more than an electronic dictionary and text-analysis
software, Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin
City University in Ireland, has managed to decrypt words that had been
blotted out from declassified documents to protect intelligence sources.

--
John Lyon
Daddy Fu :: The Adventures of a Stay At Home Dad
A weblog at http://jelyon.com/blog.html

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