• Re: Chinese inverters, Israeli pagers

    From David Lesher@21:1/5 to Jim Wilkins on Mon May 19 21:44:46 2025
    "Jim Wilkins" <[email protected]> writes:


    It works in reverse too, by dropping hints of nonexistent faults. German >U-boots used a French radar detector, the Metox. The French resistance
    spread a false rumor that the detector's intermediate frequency oscillator >was leaking out the antenna and being detected by the British, causing the >Germans to stop using it.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metox_radar_detector

    Many WWII technology books credit this to a Allies POW who was being questioned by the Germans.
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