N. Korea broadcasts encrypted spy message on YouTube for first time

[dufus]

 

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Saturday broadcast a series of mysterious numbers, presumed to be an encrypted message to its spies in the South, for the first time on YouTube.

 

A video clip was posted on the state-run Radio Pyongyang's YouTube account, in which a female announcer read what she described as "an information technology review assignment of the remote education university for No. 719 expedition agents."

 

She repeated phrases such as "No. 23 on Page 564, No. -19 on Page 479" for about one minute in the posting, which had been viewed 2,500 times as of 11 a.m. The numbers were not broadcast on the radio.

 

North Korea has broadcast such seemingly random numbers via radio since the Cold War era, as recently as March 7 and 13.

 

But this is the first time that Pyongyang has used the global video-sharing platform to send the apparently coded messages.

 

A computer-generated image of North Korea's broadcast of mysterious numbers, presumed to be an encrypted message to its spies, on YouTube, provided by Yonhap News TV 

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[funkyy]

Looks more like Kim was just ordering his favourite Chinese takeaway food!!

[Arachnoid]

Unless you have the correct book and edition for deciphering its only guesswork as to what the sequence means. The query not so much the way it was broadcast but why make it so obvious as there are so many more easier and secretive ways of passing messages such as steganography.

[BimBamSmash]

Can't Google trace the IP addresses that accessed that video?

[mp68terr]

51 minutes ago, BimBamSmash said:

Can't Google trace the IP addresses that accessed that video?

To find out about N. Korean spies?

What about all those who watched the video without knowing about the encrypted message?

What about all those who watched the video after the news came up by simple curiosity?

What about vpn?

[Arachnoid]

1 hour ago, BimBamSmash said:

Can't Google trace the IP addresses that accessed that video?

Coffee shops,Internet cafes, free wifi areas, VPNs they all complicate tracing its not like in the movies. That said data collection computers like the five eyes system do listen in on much of the data travelling through both undersea cables and microwave dishes but thats only half the battle if some form of encryption is used, hence the US pushing for back doors in all such systems.

So say you trace it back to a network adaptor address , sim card or a mobile phone unique identifier then an automated communication watch can be set up to monitor any data or calls from the device.

[BimBamSmash]

Come on now. Let's not draw conclusions on topics like this using our knowledge, and the insignificant part of tech they let us mere mortals access.

 

The way I see it, all feds need to trace "something of interest" is one tiny lead - even if it that "lead" is hidden behind several layers of obfuscation.