[Spooks] my new question on NS

[Tom Sevart]

On 04/09/2014 15:42, Gian Romani wrote:
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> Good evening everybody, I have a new question for you: I seem to have
> realized that a lot of trasmissions are empty messages, this means that
> trasmissions are produced even if there's nothing to send: the name of the
> recipient is called a lot of time and then there is nothing to be said. Is
> this a non-sense? Why empty trasmissions are sent anyway?
>

Sending empty or dummy messages helps to hide the real messages in among 
a bunch of meaningless traffic.  This prevents the enemy from 
determining when something important is happening by seeing an increase 
in traffic.  It also confounds enemy codebreaking efforts by having them 
waste their time trying to break a bunch of messages which don't mean 
anything in the first place.

-- 
Tom Sevart N2UHC
St. Paul, KS