[Spooks] my new question on NS

[Gian Romani]

Many thanks Tom, many thanks John!
ciao


2014-04-10 3:03 GMT+02:00 Tom Sevart <tmsevart at gmail.com>:

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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.
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> --
> Tom Sevart N2UHC
> St. Paul, KS
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