(George William Herbert) wrote:

:And then, you invade, and instead of the weather report
:all the stations get code "ZERO ZERO ZERO FIRE WHEN READY GRIDLI"
:
:This is all pretty easy to jam, since the frequencies are
:all known beforehand, but that general *approach* is very
:hard to penetrate with traffic analysis.

It's also pretty easy to locate a station that is transmitting all the
time and just take it down. Note that the station also has to be some
sort of intel hub if it is going to be passing out target coordinates.
Again, it's suddenly easier to find and silence.

If you don't broadcast all the time, traffic analysis tells a lot. If
you do broadcast all the time and the other guy owns the sky (and if
the other guy is the US and you are a 2nd tier nation, you have to
assume that the other guy WILL own the sky), you can bend over and
kiss your ass goodbye. You've just made the ATO.

--
"You keep talking about slaying like it's a job. It's not.
It's who you are."
-- Kendra, the Vampire Slayer