[SIGCIS-Members] Members Digest, Vol 29, Issue 17

[Jon Lindsay]

If and when cybercom goes the way of the air force it will be interesting
to note that both were signal corps spin offs!
On Nov 28, 2012 5:15 PM, "Erik Rau" <erau at hagley.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Jim (and Tom)! I saw this on TV when it aired. It made me recall
> that in WWII, the US Army Signal Corps was responsible for nearly all of
> the Army’s information technology (ENIAC, famously, was supported the
> Army’s Ordnance Ballistic Proving Ground at Aberdeen, MD). This included
> everything from pigeons to typewriters to radar and cyrptography.
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> --
> Erik P. Rau, PhD
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>   1. "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders" (Thomas J. Misa)
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> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:56:38 -0600
> From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa at umn.edu>
> To: sigcis <members at sigcis.org>
> Cc: Thomas Misa <tmisa at umn.edu>
> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders"
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> Message to list from Jim Cortada -- see these BBC news items about
> long-dead pigeon code . . . .  TJM
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> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9772000/9772402.stm>
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20456782>
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> On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:54 AM, James Cortada wrote:
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> This is way too much fun to ignore.  Tom, for some reason, I can't send
> messages through the siglist, can you do that?
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> Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada
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