![]() Yes, the massively popular mobile game where you slingshot a group of birds into wooden structures crafted by a group of devious pigs, is playing fast and loose with user data. While we no longer have to worry about a group of carrier pigeons leaking important information, we do have to worry about another group of birds that are taking their place: Angry Birds. ![]() But that type of data leakage went with the territory. Yet they weren’t a secure method of communication: they could get lost, captured or snacked upon by a hungry falcon. These modern-day sky-rats were capable of delivering messages up to 100 miles away and returning to their roost in a single day. Back in the heyday before the Internet, and even before the telephone, there was one somewhat-reliable way of spreading information far and fast: the carrier pigeon.
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