Annotated 47-37
FB: “47-37, eight frames in position, camera angle is fixed, over.”
I’m not sure I get the code-naming scheme for everyone here. Xan and Shanna have number-names more or less appropriate to themselves: zero is the only number that starts with the same sound as Xan’s name, aside from “zillion,” which seems a little too arrogant for Xan. Plus, binary code. And Shanna, the one who has more of the answers than anyone else, is therefore assigned the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, even if any nerd references like this are going to happen purely against her will.
But I’m not sure how Daniel is Big Ten, or what the other two’s codenumbers would be if they needed them. I’m gonna guess Daniel is a big football fan, assign Lia to be Fifty-Two on the basis of LI (51) + a (one), and call Chrissie Eight of Hearts since eight is infinity sideways and she is the heart of the group. Of course, the group is way more likely to get caught than to have their transmissions intercepted, but let them have their callsigns if it’ll help them feel bold.
With radio, your transmissions are always intercepted. Question is, does anyone give a shit?
I’m not really up to date with these things (not that I ever was), but isn’t radio digital too, these days? Which means it *could* at least be encrypted.
Also, I’m still incredibly annoyed that mobile phones can’t work as walkie-talkies, too (that is: independent of cellphone towers, just for communications to other nearby phones). I bet it wouldn’t take much to make that work, either via Bluetooth or Wifi or the cellphone frequencies they’re already using anyway, or something somewhere in between.
Apparently it’s dead now, but FireChat tried to do ad hoc messaging for phones. It was supposed to help protestors organize through phones even if the internet was blocked and cell towers were shut down. It was not secure or anonymous, though.
There seems to some apps for that. “Walkie Talkie Communication” is one that doesn’t just mimic a walkie talkie but – if their presenting text is correct – supports communicating over radio band.
I mean, you could encrypt, but it would mean adding a delay to the comms, which is infuriating.
Mostly radio is just an open window, and whatever you say will be picked by any number of others, not all of which will be monitored, and almost none of whom will give a damn.
Unless they’re a pre-teen kiddo doing something they shouldn’t with some older relative’s radio equipment.
I think there used to be a push to talk hardware feature (on Blackberries?) that used radio waves like a decade ago? I think that feature died because nobody used it. For the life of me I can’t Google a reference to it now.
If the group had their communications intercepted, there’s a decent chance it’d be by some of the guards who might also be using radio to talk to each other. In that case, the guards wouldn’t need to understand the code names. There are not too many scenarios where someone in the vicinity talks like that, and that means they’d figure out quickly that this means work for them.