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They worried all the time about it; systems weren't perfect.
Interception was usually the bigger issue. Messengers would have orders to destroy their messages if caught, but that didn't always happen. You might even have just a failure to transmit a message; a lot of the theory for modern Internet packet switching came from military communication.
Forgery could happen. This was usually counteracted by knowing the sender's handwriting or applying a seal or stamp to the communication. It wasn't perfect, but it did ok.
I would like to know more about that internet packet history!