How to upgrade communications

High communication efficiency means that there is minimal delay when tactics are assigned, and coordinated activity are less likely to run into trouble.

 

10: Digital mobile phones, instant messaging

7-9: Cell phone and email

4-6: Telephone and telegram

1-3: Postal mail

0: Face to face only

 

Communication security is also crucial to prevent adversaries to disrupt or gain access to it.

 

10: strong crypto used on all electronic and voice communication, hard drives regularly swapped and reformatted, codes used for all written messages, strict protocol observed for all meetings. Cell-like organization structure where no one can betray more than 2-3 others. Extensive use of code names for people

7-9: most communication encrypted, good password security, written messages coded, strategy meetings staked out and kept small

4-6: unsecured voice and email, hard drive passwords rarely changed, only simple codes, face-to-face minimal variation

1-3: Wide use of email lists, no encoding written communication, face-to-face

0: No measures taken