chalabi codes

juan cole:

"We know that someone among the Neoconservatives also let Ahmad Chalabi know that the US had broken Iranian codes and could read that country's secret diplomatic correspondence. As anyone could have expected, Chalabi immediately told the Iranians about the US spying. The Iranians will have immediately changed their codes.

Note: The crime here was letting the Iranians know we could listen in on them at will. As a third world country, Iran was presumably using fairly primitive encryption then, which our NSA had broken. Once the Iranians were tipped by Chalabi that we were listening, it would have been easy for them either to feed us some disinformation or to just close us out all together"

ive noted before that i'm curious about this situation - however, i presume that the iranians knew that their technology was 'primitive' - and therefore i also presume that it was no surprise that their codes has been broken - ergo this meta-narrative is somewhat dodgy.

i still don't know what it means.