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This is the development monorepo for "React Native for Web" and related projects. Contains workflows used by GitHub Actions. Contains the individual packages managed in the monorepo. Contains Node.js scripts for miscellaneous tasks. Use npm run build to run the build script in every package. Use npm run build -w to run the build script for a specific package. Use npm run dev to run the dev script in every package. Use npm run dev -w to run the dev script for a specific package. Use npm run test to run tests for every package. More details can be found in the contributing guide below. Development happens in the open on GitHub and we are grateful for contributions including bugfixes, improvements, and ideas. This project expects all participants to adhere to Meta's OSS Code of Conduct. Please read the full text so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated. Read the contributing guide to learn about the development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to React Native for Web. To help you get you familiar with the contribution process, there is a list of good first issues that contain bugs which have a relatively limited scope. This is a great place to get started.
What you'll hear varies by station. Some stations broadcast continually. Others spring to life at scheduled times. Most keep strict schedules so that agents know when to tune in to the right frequency. On the next page you'll see more about what, exactly, numbers stations are sending through the airwaves. They generally begin with an alert signal of sorts at the top or bottom of the hour. This alert may be a simple tone, or it can be fragments of song, such as with the famous Lincolnshire Poacher station, which begins broadcasts by playing several bars from the well-known tune of the same name. This indicates to listeners that a message is about to begin and also helps the user tune his or her radio for the best reception. What follows the opening refrain is usually a set of spoken numbers or letters, often four or five at a time, which are repeated again and again, before moving on to a new set.
Depending on the station's origin, the code may be spoken in English, Korean, Czech, Spanish or other languages. Many stations have received colorful nicknames that reflect some defining characteristic of the station. For example, one is called Swedish Rhapsody because it begins with a fragment of that song. Other well-known stations include The Buzzer, Cherry Ripe, The Spanish Lady, Atencion and Yosemite Sam. Sometimes broadcasts come in loud and clear. Sometimes atmospheric conditions degrade the signals. And sometimes, intentional jamming on the part of opposition countries creates enough interference on the same frequency that it renders the transmission difficult or impossible to understand. The coded structure of the messages almost certainly indicates that these messages are secret and intended for spies avoiding detection. The question, then, is how do spies understand the latent messages when no one else can? The manner in which these bizarre broadcasts are encoded is the linchpin of an unbreakable encryption system. Keep reading to see how these codes work.
What makes them perhaps even more compelling is that they're still in use, decades after the world wars that sparked their rise. They've survived the communications revolutions because unlike so much digitized code, these transmissions are unbreakable. You may scoff at the idea. If codes generated by supercomputers can be hacked, what's so hard about deciphering a few numbers? It is hard. Actually, it's nearly impossible. Done properly, no one will understand the message but the intended recipient. In this system, both the sender and receiver have a single copy of paper (or other media) filled with random digits or numbers. Using a key that corresponds to the pad, the recipient can figure out what letters the incoming characters or digits stand for. Crucially, each key is used only once, thus the name one-time pad. Both the sender and receiver immediately destroy the key at the end of the broadcast, meaning that even if someone else intercepts the series of numbers, they'll have no way to decode the hidden message.
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