Funny looking line noise

Jan 13, 2011 14:58

So this Ukrainian dude I follow on Twitter posted a link to this diplomatic cable from Kyrgyzstan, which has all kinds of goofy looking line noise in it. In fact, even the file name is jacked up -- it should be BISHKEK, not BISHIEK, which makes me think of some town in the frozen steppes whose sole export is yaoi manga ( Read more... )

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steer January 14 2011, 12:25:05 UTC
It's a curious pattern -- if it's bit errors then (a) why so rarely is the lowest bit flipped? It's almost always 8, 32 or 64 and very rarely 1 or 16.

49 and 23 are "peculiar" as they require several bits in error (3 and 4 respectively). Did you get the wrong character in your redacted text there?

The spacing is odd too in that only one short section is affected.

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