Wednesday, April 20, 2011

WWI: Declassified

The CIA recently declassified a few documents from the WWI era pertaining to secret writing techniques. It has been said that this stuff was rendered obsolete years ago by computer encryption. That’s not only true (everyone knows that hackers can’t get through encryption!), but it’s also the new rules that you have to send all your secrets over the internet. Carrying around secret messages with invisible ink and stuff is cheating! That’s way too hard to find out about and crack! And it’s so out of fashion, too. Do you want all the spies to laugh at you and make fun of you on Twitter? And really, when you think about it, if your secret transmissions don’t end up on Wikileaks, were they really important to begin with?

Here’s the secret report someone hacked from the government (Oh, sorry; actually I guess it’s just a press release.):