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Bulkheads

My head’s a divided place. Sometimes I imagine that there are bulkheads, water-tight and riveted securely in case of icebergs and other acts of god. There are valves and ducts connecting the bulkheads, but otherwise they are separate. They tend to follow the same pattern, with minor variations according to the different specifications – some […]

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Eavesdropping & Quantum Linguistics

Just to be safe, I’m stating this up front – this is not a blog about the US spying on everything we do (although the principle is almost exactly the same). This is a blog about one of my favourite occupations as an undercover polyglot in South Africa, and about the flip-side of it: eavesdropping […]