{"id":332,"date":"2006-06-19T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2006-06-20T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T18:37:31","slug":"the-numbers-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/the-numbers-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/dorchester.jpg\" alt=\"dorchester.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get<br \/>\n<em>http:\/\/www.homelandstupidity.us\/2006\/06\/16\/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations\/<\/em> (as <a href=\"http:\/\/bpedro.wevel.com\/\">Bruno<\/a> did very well).<br \/>\nBesides the little challenge, the point of that post was the link encoded. I&#8217;ve been following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelandstupidity.us\/2006\/06\/16\/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations\/\">this story<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelandstupidity.us\/\">Homeland Stupidity<\/a> and it has been very interesting to read about the main theme on which the hole thing is reminiscent: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numbers_Stations\">Numbers Stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to explain what a Number Station is, you can check the Wikipedia link above, I just would like to leave you with one of the most interesting projects I came across &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/conet.htm\">The Conet Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Conet Project gathers in 4 CDs a comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings, which, by the way are spooky as hell. Although you can buy the CDs, the editor allows the download of the <a href=\"http:\/\/irdial.hyperreal.org\/the%20conet%20project\/\">CDs in .mp3<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/irdial.hyperreal.org\/www\/conet_project_booklet.pdf\">booklet in .pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>30 31 30 31 30 31 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 31 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 30 31 30 31 20 30 30 31 30 30 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 30 20 30 31 31 31 30 30 31 30 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 31 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 31 30 30 30 20 30 30 31 30 30 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 31 30 30 31 20 30 31 31 31 30 30 31 31 20 30 30 31 30 30 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 31 31 31 31 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 31 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 30 20 30 30 31 30 30 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 31 30 30 30 20 30 31 31 30 30 31 30 31 20 30 31 31 31 30 30 31 30 20 30 31 31 30 30 31 30 31 20 30 30 31 30 30 30 30 30 20 30 30 31 31 31 30 31 31 20 30 30 31 30 31 30 30 31  <\/p>\n<p>[tags]Numbers Stations, Spys, Ciphers, The Conet Project[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get http:\/\/www.homelandstupidity.us\/2006\/06\/16\/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations\/ (as Bruno did very well). Besides the little challenge, the point of that post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}