windtalker


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Noun1.windtalker - a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II
intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent - a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
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From their paper - its obligatory cute title is When CSI Meets Public WiFi: Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals, where "CSI" stands for "channel state information: "WindTalker is motivated from the observation that keystrokes on mobile devices will lead to different hand coverage and the finger motions, which will introduce a unique interference to the multi-path signals and can be reflected by the channel state information (CSI)".
SSI, a provider of advanced software engineering services and solutions, and CoreGuard, the developer of the WindTalker Security Platform, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer next generation security technology to the government and private-industry markets.
On the international scene, the economic development leader made multiple trips to China this past year as he helps finalize arrangements for that country's officials to invest in Windtalker Energy.
Foslom, CA, January 26, 2011 --(PR.com)-- SSI, a provider of advanced software engineering services and solutions, and CoreGuard, the developer of the WindTalker Security Platform, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer next generation security technology to the government and private-industry markets.
"The integration of WindTalker technology will allow uMesh to go beyond what is currently utilized by government and private industry today," says James English, CEO Telemetry Labs.
NOT ALL TALK: DiCaprio; MAKE MY DAY:; GOOD WILL CHATTING:; GIVE ACTUALLY:; WINDTALKER:; DOUBLE TALK:; DIVA:; A; CAPTION HERE: All captions are now; HELP: Brad, George and ER's Noah Wyle.
Coming off disappointing box office results for joint distribution efforts on "Windtalker" and "Out," a Chinese blockbuster starring Jet Li, MT worried that putting together a distribution consortium, as most Japanese companies do for major films, might not be easy.
PASS WORDS: Navajo windtalker Yahzee (Beach) and his protector Enders (Cage)
Films discussed include Windtalkers, Apocalypse Now, December 7th, Bataan, They Were Expendable, Jarhead, Full Metal Jacket, and Redacted.
John Woo's Windtalkers in 2002 and Terrance Malick's The Thin Red Line earlier in 1998 pale in comparison to Hacksaw Ridge.
A similar story was told in the 2002 movie Windtalkers, which focused on two Navajo soldiers responsible for sending and receiving near unbreakable codes during World War II; the codes were based on the Navajo language and helped the Allies win the war.