[Cryptography] "Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil"

[Bill Frantz]

[Reply via list since the last time I tried a personal email to 
Dave, a year or so ago, his robot seriously didn't like my ISP.]

On 9/19/19 at 5:57 PM, dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>>I can't find the book just now, but it is a description of 
>>code breaking in Australia during WWII. Most of the time, they 
>>could break the conversations between Japanese airplanes. But 
>>even when the codes were changed, and had not yet been broken, 
>>direction finding and signal strength told them almost 
>>everything they needed to know about coming attacks.
>
>"Codebreakers" by Craig Collie?
>
>The front page blurb says "Inside the shadowy world of signals 
>intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks".  ISBN 9781743312100.
>
>Why two facilities?  Army and Navy - typical military NIH 
>behaviour, and as a result they weren't as effective as a joint 
>facility could have been.
>
>I was stunned to learn that we had our own Bletchley Park(s) :-)

Bingo!

I picked up my copy in the Sydney airport while leaving after 
the International Congress of Speleology. It's a good read.

Cheers - Bill

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