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The FBI complaint, as hosted by the New York Times, is here: http://documents.nytimes.com/criminal-complaints-from-the-justice-department#document/p30 On page 30 (in the NYT document reader) the FBI claims that their audio surveillance of the Yonkers house in 2003 yielded, on "at least five occasions", "irregular electronic clicking sounds associated with the receipt of coded radio transmissions." I don't know how radio transmissions are supposed to "click", that sounds like 19th century telegraphy, but if it's Morse it makes me think that they were decoding either M08a. Since another Cuban station, V02a, has been implicated in a Federal case against Cuban spies, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the same transmitter might be contracting for Russia as the M08a format. So, does the new Cuban format, SK01, displace the schedules of M08, V02a, or both? If it's one or the other that's evidence for my hypothesis, if both, then it's evidence against. But shortwave doesn't seem to have been an important form of communications for them, the FBI complaint only mentions it in passing. Mostly they were using ad-hoc wireless networks between laptops and steganography--encoding text files in images on the Internet. Gene On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, The Doctor <[email protected]> wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from > this list > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andy wrote: > > > The only problem is that, the moment the handlers learned of the arrests, > > they would change the one-time pads, making the old ones useless. > > That brings another problem: distributing the new 'pads to field > operatives. That means additional risk, at the very least of connecting > handlers to operatives. > > > It would be interesting to note if there was more traffic on the Russian > > numbers stations in the days following the arrests, notifying other > agents > > not caught in the net of the changes...... > > That could potentially leak more information to a traffic analysis > attack (stimulus-response). One might think that they would avoid > tipping their hand in such a way. > > The compromise of field operatives seems like it would be a contingency > covered during planning, with a specialized message already worked out > and ready to go ("PRIMARY TEAM CAPTURED GO TO GROUND STOP", or "If you > ever see this sequence of numbers don't decode it, it means that we've > lost field agents. Sit tight until you see this sequence of numbers and > then start decrypting messages again starting with the next one.") > > - -- > > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] > > PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 > WWW: http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ > > I receive spam, therefore, I am. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxO5aMACgkQO9j/K4B7F8G1HgCgmEItU12YkmTgORdbDRJ0LWJC > ACIAn3Y5yunXbKHu/gmk9+8WejpvbHVA > =2vzL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
