Next, they’ll be checking for homing pigeons.

Thursday, June 18th at 9:49AM EST

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Actually, they should check for homing pigeons.

EXCLUSIVE: Cuban spies’ shortwave radios go undetected

MIAMI | A retired State Department officer and his wife who are accused of spying for Cuba appear to have avoided capture for 30 years because their communications with the Caribbean island were too low-tech to be detected by sophisticated U.S. monitors.

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U.S. intelligence spends little time combing the shortwave bands for secret, nefarious transmissions, said James Lewis, director and senior fellow for the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

“I’m not surprised [the U.S. intelligence community] missed this,” Mr. Lewis said. “We don’t put an emphasis on monitoring this kind of activity.”

Which is one reason why the Cubans use this technique. The other reason, of course, is because their ruling regime is shackled to a inferior and discredited economic/political philosophy whose only successes have been in turning large numbers of live peasants into dead ones.

At any rate, check the pigeon fanciers in southern Florida. Just in case.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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Maybe they were lucky

bk (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 9:54AM EST (link)

that this was considered Cuba’s most high-tech means of communication.

Heck, you could do TCP/IP via carrier pigeon if you really wanted to

Finrod (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 3:47PM EST (link)

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

And lest you think that's just an Apr 1 joke

Finrod (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 3:51PM EST (link)

These fellows actually *implemented* it: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

Those people have too much spare time.

Brian Hibbert (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 4:02PM EST (link)

Not to mention the slowest network connection on earth.

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T he ping log is great

Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 4:40PM EST (link)

The log:

Script started on Sat Apr 28 11:24:09 2001 vegard@gyversalen:~$ /sbin/ifconfig tun0 tun0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.0.3.2 P-t-P:10.0.3.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:150 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:88 (88.0 b) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

vegard@gyversalen:~$ ping -i 900 10.0.3.1 PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

--- 10.0.3.1 ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms vegard@gyversalen:~$ exit

Script done on Sat Apr 28 14:14:28 2001

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Nice...

vettepilot (Diary) Thursday, June 18th at 6:53PM EST (link)

Looks like they used a full-duplex link. No collisions…

What would have really freaked me out would have been if one of the TTLs was less than 255.