Let me know if there is a better community for this type of question. I am still learning my way around.

  • HobbitFoot
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    1 year ago

    They worried all the time about it; systems weren’t perfect.

    Interception was usually the bigger issue. Messengers would have orders to destroy their messages if caught, but that didn’t always happen. You might even have just a failure to transmit a message; a lot of the theory for modern Internet packet switching came from military communication.

    Forgery could happen. This was usually counteracted by knowing the sender’s handwriting or applying a seal or stamp to the communication. It wasn’t perfect, but it did ok.