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@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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1. "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders" (Thomas J. Misa)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:56:38 -0600 From: "Thomas J. Misa" <tmisa@umn.edu> To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org> Cc: Thomas Misa <tmisa@umn.edu> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] "WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders" Message-ID: <B149464D-DDCA-48CF-937B-B087B9DC2990@umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Message to list from Jim Cortada -- see these BBC news items about long-dead pigeon code . . . . TJM

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9772000/9772402.stm> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20456782>

On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:54 AM, James Cortada wrote:

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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