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DEFCON 4 | Europe Crisis | November 2021

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RiffRaff said:
Not impossible, but highly unlikely. I have 30 years of IT experience, over 10 of which was network security. I wipe my phones when I first get them and install a different OS than comes from the manufacturer, then I install several security apps before I install anything else. As a result, my phone is much more secure than any of the phones that come stock from the manufacturer.
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Do you have instructions on the net anywhere showing how to do that? I am getting a new one soon and I have thought about buying a phone outside of Goggle or Apple just because of the constant snooping. I hate having adds pop up a minute after having a discussion about the same thing let alone the bloatware you I cant remove.
 
I have Poland's solution to the Migrant problem. Wait until it gets its coldest at night and then blast water cannons over them like rain, extinguishing their camp fires and making it too cold for them to camp out near the border.

i see Australia must have been listening to me online. They are making a push to buy our old LA class subs since it will take TEN YEARS to build their own modern nuclear subs.
 
rudemarine said:
Do you have instructions on the net anywhere showing how to do that? I am getting a new one soon and I have thought about buying a phone outside of Goggle or Apple just because of the constant snooping. I hate having adds pop up a minute after having a discussion about the same thing let alone the bloatware you I cant remove.
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There are instructions for doing this on almost every brand of phone out there, but some are much easier than others. If you're a beginner at this, I would suggest the Google Pixel 4A or the Samsung Galaxy S 21. Mine is a Google Pixel 5. Generally what does all the snooping is not the base operating system, but all the added bloatware the cellular carriers add to it. So step one is to unlock and root the phone. My phone was rooted before it was even allowed to connect to a network.

Step 2 is to install the OS you want, based on your needs and wants. I lean towards privacy and security, and there are multiple ROMs you can install on your phone that accomplish that. GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, CopperheadOS, and LineageOS are prime examples. I use LineageOS, which is a base Android installation with no ties to Google at all. The Google Play Store isn't even installed by default. So, if you want to download apps, you'll have to install an app repository to do it. MicroG is an option that will give you some access to Google Play apps without actually having to install Google Play. However, having Google Play installed on your phone is okay as long as you keep a leash on it to prevent it from phoning home so much.

For that I use a few different security apps and a firewall. I recommend Quantum Flare, which provides full control over which apps have access to the internet and which don't. You can even give partial access to apps, allowing them to connect to one server but not others. Problem is, this is where you're going to start needing to understand basic networking, IP addresses, and network ports to create solid firewall rules.

Oh, and you will void your phone's warranty the minute you root it, so if you do it incorrectly and brick the phone, they're not going to exchange it. So a solid grasp of basic technical knowledge is highly suggested for anyone attempting to do this.

My advice is, if you didn't understand what I said about firewall rules, IP addresses, and network ports, you should pay a friend $50 to do the rooting process and ROM installation for you, then install whatever you want once that's done.

Let me know how it goes.
 
RiffRaff said:
There are instructions for doing this on almost every brand of phone out there, but some are much easier than others. If you're a beginner at this, I would suggest the Google Pixel 4A or the Samsung Galaxy S 21. Mine is a Google Pixel 5. Generally what does all the snooping is not the base operating system, but all the added bloatware the cellular carriers add to it. So step one is to unlock and root the phone. My phone was rooted before it was even allowed to connect to a network.

Step 2 is to install the OS you want, based on your needs and wants. I lean towards privacy and security, and there are multiple ROMs you can install on your phone that accomplish that. GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, CopperheadOS, and LineageOS are prime examples. I use LineageOS, which is a base Android installation with no ties to Google at all. The Google Play Store isn't even installed by default. So, if you want to download apps, you'll have to install an app repository to do it. MicroG is an option that will give you some access to Google Play apps without actually having to install Google Play. However, having Google Play installed on your phone is okay as long as you keep a leash on it to prevent it from phoning home so much.

For that I use a few different security apps and a firewall. I recommend Quantum Flare, which provides full control over which apps have access to the internet and which don't. You can even give partial access to apps, allowing them to connect to one server but not others. Problem is, this is where you're going to start needing to understand basic networking, IP addresses, and network ports to create solid firewall rules.

Oh, and you will void your phone's warranty the minute you root it, so if you do it incorrectly and brick the phone, they're not going to exchange it. So a solid grasp of basic technical knowledge is highly suggested for anyone attempting to do this.

My advice is, if you didn't understand what I said about firewall rules, IP addresses, and network ports, you should pay a friend $50 to do the rooting process and ROM installation for you, then install whatever you want once that's done.

Let me know how it goes.
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Thanks, I appreciate it. I will probably wait for the Tesla phone since that seems like it will be what I need, as long as I can remove the car programs. The camera and text from areas where you have no cell reception is a huge plus for me. If its another bloated phone I might go with that new phone company Clear cellular that has its own OS and Network nationwide with no tracking at all.
 
Flying two B-1s 100km from the Russian border over the Black sea. Big balls by the bone pilots, Huge. I bet they were on edge a bit. Then again they were probably flying 50 feet off the water on the best roller coaster ride we have built in a long time. I remember when it was so Classified they wouldn't let you near it at airshows. It is still my favorite bomber. Just wish they had not neutered it..
 
DarkNoon said:
Yes and each map leads to nuclear war. You can't have a war without another side losing. If the other side loses they will launch & in kind so will the opposing foe of any nuclear nation.

You can & Politicians can talk all they want technically about engaging directly with another nuclear nation. But that map you speak of only leads one place and they know this.
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Just for starters, are you forgetting about Russia trying us in Syria? We pimp slapped the shit out of them for trying to take a refinery we were holding with Kurdish forces. 175 Russians dead or not found because the pieces of them were too small to pick up off the sand.

Russia didn't make a peep about it, that we have heard anyway.

The problem today other than the days of the cold war is we will both happily fight a conventional war but today NATO would be across Russia's border in a day after winning control of the sky.

Russia will be in mass confusion and even though our forces might be 20 miles away from the border they might not wait to see our tanks roll into Red Square and decide to start nuking the hell out of our land forces in Europe which would cause NATO to launch in kind and take out everything that could launch at our troops. Then Russia will fire at the CONUS bases and European nations cities.

So while we can fight a conventional war, it would not last long unless cooler heads turn it off real fast.
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
You're probably right.

Think more Fail Safe, nuking New York as payback for Moscow.

It still is in the realm of possibility. I'd rather buy a thousand lottery tickets and believe every one is the big winner. But it is possible.
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I think most Americans would actually support that right now 🤣..

Americans accepting losing DC after Moscow that is.
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
Sure it can. Russia decides to fully invade Ukraine, marching up to Poland, causing NATO to react. (And they would.)

North Korea invades South Korea. (Happened once already.)

Iran decides to obliterate Israel. (Like they've been threatening to.)
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Well if the first starts then the rest definitely will. That's for sure.
 
rudemarine said:
Flying two B-1s 100km from the Russian border over the Black sea. Big balls by the bone pilots, Huge. I bet they were on edge a bit. Then again they were probably flying 50 feet off the water on the best roller coaster ride we have built in a long time. I remember when it was so Classified they wouldn't let you near it at airshows. It is still my favorite bomber. Just wish they had not neutered it..
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It is a work of art isn’t. It really something to see one of the largest bombers in the world do a double roll.
 
"Russian Federation Ministry of Defense records the unprecedented activity of reconnaissance aircraft in the sky over the Black Sea:

✔ On November 9, over the Black Sea, the US Air Force's E-8S ground target reconnaissance and strike control aircraft was accompanied by the radio-technical means of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Also on the past day, Russian anti-aircraft missile forces over the Black Sea were accompanied by THREE reconnaissance aircraft of NATO member states:

✔ The US Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft that took off from the airbase on the island of Crete (Greece) was approaching the state border of the Russian Federation at a distance of 30 km.

✔ The patrol aircraft P-8A Poseidon of the US Navy, which took off from an airbase on the island of Sicily (Italy), was approaching the state border of the Russian Federation at a distance of 70 km.

✔ The C-160G "Gabriel" reconnaissance aircraft of the French Aerospace Forces that took off from the airbase in Romania was approaching the state border of Russia by 30 km.

✔ Another U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force, which took off from the territory of Great Britain, was detected and accompanied by radar reconnaissance equipment over the territory of Ukraine, approaching the border of the Russian Federation at a distance of about 60 km.

✔This morning at 8.56 Moscow time, the US Navy guided missile destroyer Porter left the Georgian port of Batumi.

✔ At 09.20 Moscow time the US Navy headquarters ship Mount Whitney left Batumi.

✔Tanker "John Lenthall" of the US Navy is located in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.

The actions of the American Navy, together with reconnaissance and strategic aviation in the Black Sea, confirm the true goal of the unscheduled multinational exercise: the development of the alleged theater of military operations and, in particular, the territory of Ukraine in case Kiev prepares a military solution in the southeast."
 
15 House R's led by @MikeTurnerOH ask POTUS to consider sending US troops to Ukraine,
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As much as I don't want to admit it, because no rational thinking leader would do this, I can see Biden sending troops.

Not because I think Biden is insane. It's because I think Biden is Old School.

Only a part of me thinks this is possible, though. My money is on no troops.
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
As much as I don't want to admit it, because no rational thinking leader would do this, I can see Biden sending troops.

Not because I think Biden is insane. It's because I think Biden is Old School.

Only a part of me thinks this is possible, though. My money is on no troops.
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Are you changing your mind at all on what you said before regarding Ukraine? In that NATO probably wouldn’t do much as long as there is no advance past Donbas
 
Train said:
In that NATO probably wouldn’t do much as long as there is no advance past Donbas
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NATO? No. I still stand by that.

NATO moving into Ukraine would invite a violent response by Russia. They'd practically have to answer that or Putin would lose all face.
 
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