Using Nokia model # as terrorist messages

Posted: February 2nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Some of the curious codes used by terrorists are described in the Washington Post (in an article by Craig Whitlock):

“In September 2005, a British court convicted Andrew Rowe, a Jamaican convert to Islam, on terrorism charges after authorities found a secret code book in which he gave double meanings to the brand numbers of Nokia phones. Pretending to be a traveling cellphone salesman, Rowe would use “Nokia 3310″ to refer to money, “Nokia 3410″ to signal potential trouble from the police and “Nokia 3610″ as code for weapons. Rowe received a 15-year prison sentence, even though prosecutors and police said his precise plans remained a mystery.“

Why do I blog this? curiosity towards random facts about codes used by terrorists. A new usage of Nokia phone model names.

4 Comments on “Using Nokia model # as terrorist messages”

  1. 1 michael said at 11:44 am on February 4th, 2008:

    Source? If they didn’t know his preice plans, how could they lock him away for 15yrs? What if his innocent? Im tired of all this terrorist propaganda the US of A spews out!

  2. 2 Nicolas Nova said at 1:06 pm on February 4th, 2008:

    I haven’t really focused on that part of the paper, only the description of code.

  3. 3 Ben said at 3:04 am on November 21st, 2008:

    @michael

    did you miss this part “Jamaican convert to Islam”. Muslim therefore terrorist. Duh.

  4. 4 Cody said at 6:25 am on November 29th, 2008:

    Michael, please inform me of any legal line of work that involves secret codes, money, weapons, and trouble with the police.

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