"There is no way for us to defend ourselves: even skilled technologists who administer their own networked services are no match for the bandits. To keep bandits out, you have to be perfect and perfectly vigilant, and never make a single mistake. For the bandits to get you, they need merely find a single mistake that you’ve made." Ooof. What a boot-to-the-face reminder. Despite my use of a Tor Router, three ubikeys a…
If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes. The reason that number stations continue to operate is that it really is the best way to communicate/order under surveillance which almost certainly is happening in every embassy in non-fri…
I'd say using a dead drop is probably even older and more secure. I don't think it'd attract any extra attention unless you're already being followed.
A numbers station is really only useful to a particular use case that seems exclusive to nation-state spies: you don't care who knows you're transmitting, but you need the message and the location of the recipient to be absolutely secure.