Actually, I believe there was also a town in Poland with lots of odd letter combinations so that the Allies could help break German codes! (ie, by listening to Encrypted German communications about the bombing and it's location...) That's some interesting crap about playing Beavis and Butthead...at the very least, leaving the CD player in 'perpetual' mode can force some heavy human investment in time and energy. -TD

From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv@cdc.gov>, "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> Subject: Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II (opsec review) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:09:09 -0500

At 10:01 AM -0800 3/1/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

...

(What was that Brit town sacrificed so the Germans wouldn't know the codes were broken? Starts with "C"...)

Coventry...

Ancient cathedral, etc...

Cheers, RAH

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