That Life and Art thingie, again
Von Bork pushed over a telegram.
"Will come without fail to-night and bring new sparking plugs. Altamont."
"Sparking plugs, eh?"
"You see he poses as a motor expert and I keep a full garage. In our code everything likely to come up is named after some spare part. If he talks of a radiator it is a battleship, of an oil pump a cruiser, and so on. Sparking plugs are naval signals."
- His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Now reading this, I can think of only 2 options:
- Somebody in ISI read “His Last Bow” and came up with brilliant idea for ciphers.
- Somebody in ISI read “His Last Bow” and came up with brilliant idea to mislead everybody else.
Which one do you prefer?
