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If the medium is the metamessage, what are we supposed to think of p.23's "What can you do with a can of worms that wriggle off in all directions?"

If 1970s NSA was full of "Terry and the Pirates" fans, does 2020s NSA (full of furries and anime girls, according to an unimpeachable collateral) have a column "Ask Emeraldas"? (or maybe some equivalent Bodacious Space Pirate?)

EDIT: > Among the observations made by the survey was the report by gunship crews that the enemy gunners hold their fire until gunship escorts report minimum fuel (codeword BINGO) or expenditure of all ordnance (codeword WINCHESTER).

Replacing a whole noun phrase in a foreign language with a short memorable codeword probably makes opposing SIGINT's transcription team, not sadder, but happier.



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