[Spooks] 4th question about NS

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Gian Romani <romanigian at gmail.com> wrote:

>If really messages and transmissions must be more discreet possible,
>why different languages are used? Wouldn't be better if everyone
>broadcast in the same language, English for example, so as not to be
>recognized?

Lingua Franca works when those involved have a vested interest in mutual comprehension.  Aviation and maritime traffic are two such instances: miscommunication ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore could cost a thousand lives.  For intelligence purposes, miscommunication and misinformation between outsiders is desireable.

Contemporary communications are abstracted from language.  For all we know, V02a's messages could have been paint-by-number pictures or 6502 assembly codes.  Also keep in mind that language is a means and not necessarily the end.

If anything, mixing modes, formats, and languages is better because it causes unintended recipients (ie: us & the counterespionage community) more confusion by increasing the number of possible decryption/deciphering/deobfuscation methods that need to be tried - an already taxing effort.

As long as only the intended recipient and only the intended sender knows what's being meant, the medium (language) is irrelevant.

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