From my perspective, I'd say they are a dry run to test dead-drop "tech" for an underground cell forming in that area. Testing for effectiveness, what gets found by civilians (and therefore doesn't make it to the intended recipient), and how investigations into them proceed.
It should be clear to most everyone that cell phones and internet messages are not secure comms, so they are falling back on old Cold War techniques of dead drops for secure comms channels, and testing them.
Someone is getting serious about forming an underground resistance, with cutouts to avoid rolling up several cells with a single arrest. You can't roll over on people when you don't know who they are.
It's the notes that DON'T get found by third parties, the ones that make it to their recipients, the ones that are not heard about in the news or on the streets that will be the effective ones.
Same thing seems to be going on around here, with "flags" to alert those in the know that there is a message in a drop appearing in trees at the roadsides here. Those "flags" can be anything, so long as it is agreed upon before hand by the communicants. I just call them "flags" like the flag on a mailbox that alerts the postman there is outgoing mail in it.
Christmas time was great, with Christmas tree balls appearing on trees at the roadside at random. The casual observer would just think someone was going overboard with Christmas spirit.
Just a budding young underground cell testing their communication network.
That's just my 2 cents worth of opinion.
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It should be clear to most everyone that cell phones and internet messages are not secure comms, so they are falling back on old Cold War techniques of dead drops for secure comms channels, and testing them.
Someone is getting serious about forming an underground resistance, with cutouts to avoid rolling up several cells with a single arrest. You can't roll over on people when you don't know who they are.
It's the notes that DON'T get found by third parties, the ones that make it to their recipients, the ones that are not heard about in the news or on the streets that will be the effective ones.
Same thing seems to be going on around here, with "flags" to alert those in the know that there is a message in a drop appearing in trees at the roadsides here. Those "flags" can be anything, so long as it is agreed upon before hand by the communicants. I just call them "flags" like the flag on a mailbox that alerts the postman there is outgoing mail in it.
Christmas time was great, with Christmas tree balls appearing on trees at the roadside at random. The casual observer would just think someone was going overboard with Christmas spirit.
Just a budding young underground cell testing their communication network.
That's just my 2 cents worth of opinion.
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