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When the ‘Traffic Fairy’ Lets You Down

SUMMARY

A targeting expert helps users of the PINWALE system diagnose problems that may result in garbled or missing data, leading analysts to believe their target has stopped communicating. This is not always the case; an attempt to acquire Central American airline reservation data failed until it was realized that the data flow was encoded using an old IBM character set, rather than the expected ASCII.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Dec 14, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 01, 2018