6/02/2004

Chalabi, cutting to the chase "Accusations" that Chalabi told an Iranian that we had broken their code is now making the rounds. But, if he did tip off an Iran official why did that official continue to communicate using the code after being tipped?(The Ledeen argument) It could be that Iran wanted Chalabi out on his ass and this was the perfect way to do it. When we get to talking about code breaking these days, almost everyone in that business knows that a process called quantum technology can break almost any code; another way of saying that there ain't no codes except ones that change with every transmission. But new technologies jump up every day, and who knows? Remember, we never broke that Nazi Enigma code without getting our hands on one of their coding machines. Letting info out that a code has been "broken" is just as likely to be dis-information as information. Another way of saying just stay tuned because this story has long legs and an even longer tail.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Er, you do know that quantum computing doesn't exist yet, don't you?

AST said...

It does exist. It's just embodied in the human brain, which is not all that reliable. I can't think of any other explanation for Alan Turing, Eistein or Von Neumann.