The explanations/rationalizations I've seen is that you can log IP addresses, or logins to computers, or who's connected where. A radio works off of batteries or electricity, and the only people who know the messages are the intended parties (unless the one-off code is compromised or repeated somehow).
It's stunning how a) secure and b) nifty it is in the grand scheme of things. It's 2010, and I can put a magical phone that gets the internet onto a pad and it magically charges the battery, but the best way for spies to communicate is to use 100 year old technology.
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Date: 1/12/10 02:23 (UTC)It's stunning how a) secure and b) nifty it is in the grand scheme of things. It's 2010, and I can put a magical phone that gets the internet onto a pad and it magically charges the battery, but the best way for spies to communicate is to use 100 year old technology.