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Monday, October 22, 2012

The MARS Folks Get Stranger and Stranger

Just when you thought it was safe to ditch the tin foil hat, the Navy/MC MARS nets have stepped up to the plate with a new super secret squirrel method of operation (encypting message text). Here is an interesting intercept monitoring by our good friend Gray Ghost. Anyone have any ideas on what method these guys are using to encrpt their text?

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Net: Navy/MC Region 4 Tennessee MARS 4H2B net Freq: 4038.5 USB
Mode: MT63 / 1K
TOI: 220103Z Oct 12

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625
R 212122Z OCT 2012
FM NNN0FAA TN
TO NNN0ASG SIX
INFO NNN0AS4 GA
NNN0GBU TN
NNN0ANX TN
GR 83
BT
UNCLAS EFTO
HMDOGQX CLPDVJU
UAXEB WGVAR MZPQZ MADDC VLPXL BLPVC HAIWY IDJHD ZVQQZ JDGMC
VHPVH LLMPX TYNIM DNRHA AWYWX IDYNX KATZD YSHTX WCJDK MRZSZ
JNJHQ EEVWW WJAOF YHMOB VFSTB RKRKW AEEHK VEFBX ZHXIT RLYCI
ZHOHQ HERIA KPEHV BWJTC TUGZR ACAKT VYLZT XTOCZ CRCWW EBSAF
WEAQH OPYKD LBYEC KUNNI BLSYE RHEBL LXUZQ MZDNE CIMRD RRTUM
VRJYI CKUFB GEYWI YLLCE WFZMC BTUOB IDUUU MDHKY UXYQX YSECU
CKTQW AEVFH UQHQF PFWUM ZLKAN OWGMF SOYXZ SBZNN APEDY OAPPF
AMVZF PXJIX QTWDB CVPOA WCDQX ALRHI MHQZB JGMSX VUSYN KPTSJ
TIAEB
BT
NNNN

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Net: Navy/MC Region 4 MARS 4X9B net
Freq: 3390.0 USM
Mode: MT63 / 1K
TOI: 210108Z Oct 12

*DE NN0RBD*
DE NNN0FAA 613
R 182238Z OCT 2012
FM NNN0FAA TN
TO NNN0ASG SIX SC
INFO NNN0AS4 GA
NNN0GBU TN
NNN0ANX TN
GR 48
BT
UNCLAS EFTO
TRAINING
GCGJ RKGUL XOFQF NCSLY IJWQC EGZAB OKPQK LIFAQ ZRNJV APFVK
SJJSD YUFBV UDWYK IVUDH SCONE NMLXM OFZUK EVKSS CBPJU RYMEA
TPKIV DBEBF DBIYE PTCGD WEHTX XTTPS VMHOL NRIEZ RCCQE UWSFC
TQGPI JDCBF OZUDL SDZXH DTLYG AALQC LVZKN HBUDL EPBTT SUCBZ
FQVKK LVOFF QKXOB FEOMO XKADQ YYGNU DGKGZ TEOJG
BT
NNNN
*EOT*
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