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Line 26: This type of communication is akin to the hand signals used by armies in the field. ==Modern Usage== Richard Miniter, author of "Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror", states in an interview UPI Technology News <ref>The Web: [http://archive.infopeace.de/msg02819.html Terrorists prove elusive] By Gene J. Koprowski - UPI Technology News - Published 10/23/2003</ref> that "[a] way terrorists use the Internet to communicate is through conventional message boards. They simply go to common public places online, chat rooms and the like, and post messages using what intelligence operatives call an "idiot code." "The cipher for the code is only known to the people using it," said Miniter. "There is no mathematical relationship between the messages, as there is in cryptography. Despite the name, this is a sophisticated method. But the users are forced to memorize hundreds of code words, or they can't send complicated messages." A sample idiot code might be as follows: "The package will arrive in Germany tomorrow," said Miniter. "But the word 'package' really is code for a bomb. Only the sender of the message and the receiver know the real meaning." ==References== <references/> [[Category:Encodings]]

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