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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by Animats on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:06PM (#22732303)
Except that the British succeeded in doing such spoofing in WWII.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidistra_(transmitter)

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by chrisseaton on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:23PM (#22732421)
That's talking about spoofing someone reading out numbers. You just need a German speaker for that.

The person you're replying to is talking about the impossibility of faking a day of idiomatic BBC Radio 4 broadcasting, and I'm inclined to agree that the individual personalities and programmes are so incredibly ingrained in most British minds and the details are so subtle that you'd have no chance of being convincing.

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Re:Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic by Animats on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:55PM (#22733024)
Sefton Delmer, who was behind that, went much further. Listen to this old BBC radio show about it. [1] Start at 30:55 for the intrusion operation. They did replace German radio stations in-place as they shut down due to air raid warnings.

[1] https://ia800108.us.archive.org/9/items/OperationAspidistra/...

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