RAAF Signals Operator Technical - Classification Issue

Classification Issue

Technical Signals Intelligence is the most sensitive form of intelligence for the Australian Government. Much of it carries the highest classification available with protects targets and capabilities. Who is targeted, where, when, how, the equipment's capabilities and limitations are what gives technical COMINT its extreme clandestine nature. Any release of such information could result in an alteration in target procedure or equipment, compromising a source, which in turn could result in devastating loss of access. Being so inscrutable, very little is know publicly of the details of operations, successors and otherwise, of this field. We must look back many years and internationally to Ultra, Magic and others to gain insight to this world. However, given the vast changes and proliferation of digital communication systems in recent decades, modern Technical COMINT would bear little resemblance to these tales-of-old.