The NSA has apophenic AIs fishing for steganographic messages. They are a jumpy bunch but kind of adorable if you can get one's attention.
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"see that traffic dump? if you graph the sequence numbers of packets likely lost in the COLUMBUS III cable, it spells out A·▒·L·A·N·▒·I·S!"
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(Bogus like their constant UFO sightings, nobody would tap a cable in these places, it took a lot of debugging to get them off that)