[53049] in Cypherpunks
Blue Water spooks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Blake)
Sun Mar 31 05:21:04 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:11:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathon Blake <grafolog@netcom.com>
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
Cc: David Loysen <dwl@hnc.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960330095337.7063E-100000@larry.infi.net>
Alan:
On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
> Is there any indication that the GRU or Chinese or Iranian intelligence
> (I think these are our only foes nowadays who have blue-water {to mix a
What about the Allies, and alleged allies of the US.
Canada, Britian, Israel? << Why assume that only
non-allies will want to conduct any sort of sigint
against human speakers of Navajo.
> metaphor} spook services) could do better than the Japanese did in
> sigint'ing against human speakers of Navajoe?
Have the Chinese turned their thought towards cryptography,
or cryptanalysis yet? If so, I suspect the answer is
yes, If not, then the answer is a definate No.
The Chinese Intelligence Service traditionally has
not looked outward, preferring to ply its trade domestically.
That said, the earliest extant text on espionage is Chinese.
> Is the Navjo language still extent among draft-age men? Life in the
> Southwest has changed considerably since 1943.
I suspect more anglos can speak Navajo now, than during WW2 -- both
numerically, and as a percentage of the population.
<< Some americans do think a second languages is useful, unlike
some people on this list. Admittedly, the US still has
a far way to catchup to the European idea of what a
literate person is. >>
xan
jonathon
grafolog@netcom.com
