Talk:Claude Chappe
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Talking about the feasibility of the "Hacking" of the Chappe Telegraph related in The Count of Montecristo, the article said "This cannot be true, since the operators only copied the positions of telegraph arms. They did not know the meaning of the coded messages and were unable to construct a message of their own. "
At least in the version I read (Which is NOT the original version in French, since I can’t speak that language), it’s clearly explained that the operator didn’t understand the message, written in Chappe code, that Montecristo/Dantes handled to him. It’s also stared in the novel that the operators didn't understand the code as a security measure.
