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> If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the da
by ardy42 6y ago
> If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes.
I'd say using a dead drop is probably even older and more secure. I don't think it'd attract any extra attention unless you're already being followed.
A numbers station is really only useful to a particular use case that seems exclusive to nation-state spies: you don't care who knows you're transmitting, but you need the message and the location of the recipient to be absolutely secure.
- f430 6y ago> dead drop yes but it really needs to be remote because they caught ppl doing it like that American spy in the 80s. I know in South Korea, dead drop is a popular method of peddling drugs but ppl still get busted. I agree number stations are overkill but perhaps some similar methods...like cartels using email drafts to communicate
- chb 6y ago> because they caught ppl doing it like that American spy in the 80s. > Are you referring to Robert Hanssen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
- ardy42 6y agoBut the point is using dead drops doesn't attract attention unless you already have it. > I agree number stations are overkill but perhaps some similar methods...like cartels using email drafts to communicate That's basically a digital dead drop, and they've caught people doing that: for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal#Summary_and_chronology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal#Summary_and_c...