[81330] in Cypherpunks
Re: TV Commercial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Jun 6 13:47:32 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970606083424.007b6100@middx.x.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:12:57 -0700
To: David Lucas <davidlu@sco.com>, Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 12:34 AM -0700 6/6/97, David Lucas wrote:
>It's a nice thought, but the image is all wrong. Two ships communicating
>via Aldis lamps (presumably, I haven't seen the ad) using Morse at a guess,
>isn't what I would call very secure communication.
Well, the Japanese managed to keep secure communications when sneeking up
on Pearl Harbor, and I assume they used something similar for ship-to-ship
communications. Narrow beam, and everyone who can receive is in sight is
nice.
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