C'punks, "Acapulco H.E.A.T." was hip deep in crypto again this week. This time the Team was trying to bust *drug trafficers* (bad, bad drug lords). For some reason, my favorite character, "Cat" (Alison Armitage) got herself into a school for women drug operative recruited by the trafficers. We got to see lots of scenes of Cat and other nubiles jogging, doing jumping jacks, push ups and, best of all, shooting strange large caliber automatic weapons. The crypto part? Oh, yeah, right. Anyway, the trafficers (ex-KGB types) were transmitting date, time and location information to associates in Miami. Communications was via a series of numbers read in the clear over shortwave radio. For some reason, the H.E.A.T. guys new that the "key" was a ten-digit number that was the *same* every time! Since the KGB guy had once been busted by the CIA, H.E.A.T. finally guessed that the key was the CIA's phone number. No kidding. There was some other minor computer stuff, but the important values were preserved: Alison and other babes did callisthenics, there was lots of gun play and Fabio did *not* "act" in this episode. Tune in next--same H.E.A.T.-time, same H.E.A.T.-channel--for the further crypto adventures of "Acapulco H.E.A.T." S a n d y
Sounds like they built the idea on the "number station" phenomenon. I've heard those (just like everyone else with a shortwave receiver, or a roommate with a shortwave receiver who slept with it on all night every night :-) and they really do read out the same number sequence over and over. I suspect that the numbers change sometimes, though. -- | GOOD TIME FOR MOVIE - GOING ||| Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com> | | TAKE TWA TO CAIRO. ||| Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX: | | (actual fortune cookie) ||| "Like A Little Bit of Semi-Heaven" |
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