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::The simplest sort [of code] and thereby impossible to break. The first ad told the person or persons concerned to carry out number seven or expect number seven or it said something about something designated as seven. This one says the same with respect to code item number ten. But the meaning of the numbers cannot be deduced through statistical analysis because the code can be changed long before a useful statistical universe can be reached. It's an idiot code... and an idiot code can never be broken if the user has the good sense not to go too often to the well.<ref>The Web: [http://www.asherblack.com/quotations.html Quotations] - Asher Black</ref>
 
== Modern Usage ==
 
Richard Miniter, author of "''Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror"'', states in an interview by UPI Technology News <ref>UPI Technology News: [http://archive.infopeace.de/msg02819.html Terrorists“Terrorists prove elusive]elusive” Byby Gene J. Koprowski], -[[23 PublishedOctober]] 10/23/[[2003]].</ref> that "[a]
:Another 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“idiot code”, said codeMiniter."
 
"The:“The cipher for the code is only known to the people using it," said Miniter. "There“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“The package will arrive in Germany tomorrow," said Miniter. "But“But the word 'package'‘package’ really is code for a bomb. Only the sender of the message and the receiver know the real meaning."
 
Terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp said that the men who carried out the 1[[11 September]] [[2001]] attacks on the United States used basic e-mail and what he calls "idiot“idiot code"code” to discuss their plans.<ref>Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/06/a3d6bec4-ace3-4592-a271-f3f9b9c912cd.html Middle“Middle East: Islamic Militants Take Jihad To The Internet]Internet” By Jeffrey Donovan], -[[16 June]] 16, [[2004]].</ref>
 
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