+- Spooks Forum (http://www.spooksforum.co.uk)
+-- Forum: MI5 Operations (/forum-3.html)
+--- Forum: General Discussion (/forum-20.html)
+--- Thread: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) (/thread-743.html)
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - Nitrus - 29-06-2010 03:15 PM
Woah, they used steganography. That's impressive.
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - A Cousin - 29-06-2010 05:01 PM
(29-06-2010 03:15 PM)Nitrus Wrote: Woah, they used stenography. That's impressive.
The most recent of which was only developed in 1888!
The only practical application I know these days is court stenography. I don't know if that is monumentally stupid or deviously brilliant!And they buried money - literally! Some Ruth-like analyst in the FBI lost her night out for that one....
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - Aria - 29-06-2010 05:52 PM
... you read an article from David Wolstencraft about the Russian spies in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/29/russian-spy-ring-fact-parody-nostalgia
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - Tea Lady - 29-06-2010 06:45 PM
(29-06-2010 05:52 PM)Aria Wrote: ... you read an article from David Wolstencraft about the Russian spies in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/29/russian-spy-ring-fact-parody-nostalgia
Thanks Aria I was waiting for someone to get a Spooks link into this story. Re the tradecraft element, I read elsewhere that this spy ring was a set up, made to be detected. The real spy ring is out there, waiting, hidden.
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - TygerBright - 30-06-2010 12:08 AM
variation:
you know you're (dead chuffed to be) a Spooks fan when...
you find out that there is something called "steganography" (it's even the same word in German) which differs from "stenography" (something I learned, practised, and forgot again long, long ago).
I knew the 'art/science' of hiding information in pictures/script existed but I never had a word to attach to it... Thanks Nitrus for the edumacation!!!
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - Nitrus - 30-06-2010 12:16 AM
Off-topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
^There's a fantastic example of that page of hiding the image of a cat in a photo of trees. Truly mind-blowing.
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - TygerBright - 30-06-2010 07:32 PM
that's where I went to check it out
hours later I was still baffled... (is that the origin of the old saying "you can't see the cat for the trees"?
)You Know You Could Never Be A Spook when.. you gave up trying to comprehend after the 3rd paragraph
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - A Cousin - 30-06-2010 08:05 PM
(30-06-2010 07:32 PM)TygerBright Wrote: You Know You Could Never Be A Spook when.. you gave up trying to comprehend after the 3rd paragraph
You know you could never be a Spook...when you read the same word in the same article 4 times and your brain still fills in "stenography" for "steganography" all by its little self!
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - picard1109 - 30-06-2010 08:54 PM
...when you read about the so-called Russian spy ring (and the latest in the debacle, that the 11th 'spy' has jumped bail in Cyprus: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/30/russian-spy-ring-cyprus?CMP=AFCYAH )...and think that it's a red herring.
That, while the world (and its media) is focused on this very public story, there's something far more covert going on that THEY don't want us to notice.
RE: "You know you're a fan of [spooks] when....." (Take 2) - JHyde - 01-07-2010 12:38 PM
... when the latest to come out about the Russian spy ring is that there was a woman who gives come hither stares as part of the ring and you think 'hey - Lucas could fit right in.'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/30/AR2010063005074.html