Sending Coded Messages with Postage Stamps

The history of coded messages in postage-stamp placement. I wonder how prevalent this actually was. My guess is that it was more a clever idea than an actual signaling system. And I notice that a lot of the code systems don't have a placement that indicates "no message; this is just as stamp."...

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Source: Schneier on Security - Wednesday, 4 January

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