>>>>>[There is a reason why militaries the world over still train soldiers in old tech/low tech communication methods. While Morse code might seem archaic, the fact that the average person won't know how to listen to it with proficiency means that it is a fairly secure means of communication, especially since the messages can then be encoded further for additional encryption. And you can use it over any medium available to you, from light signals (flashlight in darkness or reflected sunlight in daylight) to radio/comm 'static', sometimes even layered under actual conversation. There are plenty of areas without WMI protocols, and while you can put up a repeater drone to establish comms, that is like sending up a red flag that someone's in the area. For similar reasons, hand signals are often taught, or even actual sign language (even if it is just a linguasoft), so that you can communicate without a sniffer program picking up any chatter.
Old tech solutions are like an additional level of encryption, one that is, as Smiley points out, much more difficult to decrypt than anything you have on the Matrix. Also, from what a technomancer contact tells me, there are these places in the Matrix where everything ever written on the Matrix gets dumped, even if you erase it, overwrite it five times, and then reconfigure the hard drive twice. If you can't imagine why that would make some people scared, consider this: Deus and the Crash Worm were both on the Matrix. So copies of their code, at least, ought to be in one of those holes everything falls into right? And how many corporate deep-dark secrets have you been paid to make sure 'never existed'? Low-tech solutions don't have this problem, though there are the aforementioned difficulties in actually using the information, since even your own people will have trouble reading it, if you're not prepared.]<<<<<
--Iceblade (02:06:23/11-16-74)
