[Poohbah]

Yup. And the traffic's getting encrypted at just about every step of the way, so you're talking about cracking 5 or 6 different systems to figure out what the message is.

[Quix]

About what I guessed.

Error correction must be incredibly precise.

And still . . .

one wonders . . . is there some ultradimensional something that slices through all our tidy little boxes and leaves us exposed?

I suppose time will tell.