Comments on: Hezbollah Cracks Israeli Radio Code http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/09/20/hezbollah-cracks-israeli-radio-code/ Bringing Fire To The Village: Your Source For Computer, Network & Information Security News from Dave Lewis, Security Blogger Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: gattaca http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/09/20/hezbollah-cracks-israeli-radio-code/#comment-1219 gattaca Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:52:46 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/09/20/hezbollah-cracks-israeli-radio-code/#comment-1219 I agree that this is more than likely little more than spin. You raise a very valid point. Had the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine" rel="nofollow">German Enigma</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_code" rel="nofollow">Japanese Purple</a> compromises been made public they would have taken steps to change the codes or at least engage in a disinformation campaign. For those of you who may not have seen it here is the link for <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/did_hezbollah_c.html" rel="nofollow">Bruce Schneier's posting</a>. I agree that this is more than likely little more than spin. You raise a very valid point. Had the German Enigma and the Japanese Purple compromises been made public they would have taken steps to change the codes or at least engage in a disinformation campaign.

For those of you who may not have seen it here is the link for Bruce Schneier’s posting.

]]> By: Ken Buchanan http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/09/20/hezbollah-cracks-israeli-radio-code/#comment-1218 Ken Buchanan Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:59:24 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2006/09/20/hezbollah-cracks-israeli-radio-code/#comment-1218 Schneier had a good point on this. It seems unlikely to be true, because if it was, then Hezbollah would not be surrendering this advantage by reporting it. It would be like a British commander in WWII saying to a newspaper reporter "We were able to sink that sub because we've cracked the German naval codes." On the other hand, if it is not true, or maybe they tried to do this but found it very limited in usefulness, then it would be worthwhile to make the claim for the sake of the PR value of 'pulling one over' on the Israeli army . Schneier had a good point on this. It seems unlikely to be true, because if it was, then Hezbollah would not be surrendering this advantage by reporting it. It would be like a British commander in WWII saying to a newspaper reporter “We were able to sink that sub because we’ve cracked the German naval codes.”

On the other hand, if it is not true, or maybe they tried to do this but found it very limited in usefulness, then it would be worthwhile to make the claim for the sake of the PR value of ‘pulling one over’ on the Israeli army .

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