Re:America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’...
by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:30PM
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A tangential story mentioned in Simon Singh's 'Code' (excellent read) is that a mole was caught sending secrets to the Soviets based on intel from the taps. They didn't want to tip the Russians off though so he was never prosecuted. Instead they fed him with phony documents to keep the taps secret.
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Re:America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’...
by pavel_lishin on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:01PM
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A similar plot point occurs in The Imitation Game, the Turing biopic that was released last year or so.
Re:America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’...
by stygiansonic on Sunday July 31, 2016 @06:46AM
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Britain had an entire program during WWII designed to identify, capture and turn German agents to get them to feed disinformation to their superiors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-Cross_System
It was used in a clever manner to subtly suggest to the Germans an incorrect location (Pas-de-Calais) for D-Day.
WWII produced some of the most interesting (now publicly known) espionage operations. My favourite is Operation Mincemeat:
https://www.damninteresting.com/mincemeat-and-the-imaginary-...
Re:America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’...
by vacri on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:43AM
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Another way the Allies misdirected the D-Day landing sites was to do a lot of reconnaissance flights to the southern coast of Bretagne (northern bit of the west coast of France). Of course, a lot these recce flights also 'just happened' to also overfly the actual location of the D-Day landings...