The “security” came from the fact it was tuned to receive a specific frequency. Earlier radios were not very selective on which frequencies they would accept.
The main benefit was not actually security but a reduction in congestion. Spewing interference out randomly is not an efficient use of airwaves.
Except that the one in the demo wasn't, enabling the hack:
It was discovered that the receiver that Fleming had been using was not, in the phrasing of the time, syntonic. It wasn’t tuned to a specific frequency, excluding all others, because a syntonic receiver would have been too large to use in the demo.
I think I read somewhere that English language legal settings have a history of a peculiar dialect of French mixed in, owing to the Norman history in Britain.
Norman, and Napoleon. The landed aristocracy has moved back and forth across the channel for a thousand years. They also fought countless wars against, and a couple alongside, each other. That creates a common culture that bleeds into all language. It happened in law, but also greatly in medicine and other sciences.
The “security” came from the fact it was tuned to receive a specific frequency. Earlier radios were not very selective on which frequencies they would accept.
The main benefit was not actually security but a reduction in congestion. Spewing interference out randomly is not an efficient use of airwaves.
Except that the one in the demo wasn't, enabling the hack:
It was discovered that the receiver that Fleming had been using was not, in the phrasing of the time, syntonic. It wasn’t tuned to a specific frequency, excluding all others, because a syntonic receiver would have been too large to use in the demo.
Discussed at the time (2017 that is, not 1903): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13779504
A nicely-done video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2qqMegNKA
Is there a typo in the Latin? “Qui vult decipi, decipatur”
I Google’d it and got this:
https://m.openjurist.org/law-dictionary-ballentines/qui-vult...
Probably pig Latin. Quid volit decipere, decipatur would be better. "Qui vult" definitely looks like Old French.
Huh? "Qui" and "vult" are both classical.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qui#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vult#Latin
And "decipi" is the passive infinitive ('to be deceived') and "decipiatur" is the passive subjunctive ('let him be deceived').
I think I read somewhere that English language legal settings have a history of a peculiar dialect of French mixed in, owing to the Norman history in Britain.
Norman, and Napoleon. The landed aristocracy has moved back and forth across the channel for a thousand years. They also fought countless wars against, and a couple alongside, each other. That creates a common culture that bleeds into all language. It happened in law, but also greatly in medicine and other sciences.
Should have [2017] tag.
Macaroni?
Spelling corrector failure?
It's hard to implement security in spaghetti code.