26 August 2013 - Opabinia Alliance 4

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Betting pool! How long can a small group of journalists hold their secrets against Opabinia, the world’s most capable spy cooperative? Another few weeks? Another few years?

clue:

How many bugs has the CIA already planted in Russia, Germany and Brazil? But secretly exfiltrating the full Snowden catalog must be pretty hard. They have to catch the directory information unencrypted and move it through what may be a narrow pipe like radio leakage, an infrared LED that they can see through a scope, ultrasonic oscillator followed from a distance by laser or microwave reflection from passive resonators—just a few example tricks.

take oh take this clue away

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