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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on July 09, 2021, 07:37:15 PM
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The FBI apparently set up a fake store that sold secure encrypted phones. Ostensibly to catch organized crime guys.
I know we here (including me) have in the past discussed trading our phones in for Google free secure phones. Now it appears you really have to research who you would by one of those from. They also supplied a secure messaging app with it, so even those are suspect now unless thoroughly researched.
https://gizmodo.com/the-fbis-fake-encrypted-honeypot-phones-are-showing-up-1847252989
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Big Brother is everywhere these days. Welcome to 1984. Public spy cameras, smart TV's, tracking cell phones, you name it, they can and will do it.
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Sounds like there's potential to have a lot of fun with an "encrypted" phone you know - know! - is being monitored.
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Right now some FBI agent is looking in my phone and muttering to himself "More *expletive deleted*ing cat photos"
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Sounds like there's potential to have a lot of fun with an "encrypted" phone you know - know! - is being monitored.
Get a couple of friends and start planning the alien invasion and discussing interdimensional travelers.
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Get a couple of friends and start planning the alien invasion and discussing interdimensional travelers.
Better to keep things down to earth and make it plausible - drop names. ("Hunter" . . . "Mr.Big" . . . "You mean Hunter's Daddy?" . . . "If you overpay for a painting, it's not a bribe" . . . "Nancy from California and Chuck from New York" . . . )
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Better to keep things down to earth and make it plausible - drop names. ("Hunter" . . . "Mr.Big" . . . "You mean Hunter's Daddy?" . . . "If you overpay for a painting, it's not a bribe" . . . "Nancy from California and Chuck from New York" . . . )
It wouldn't do any good. You would just be informing the FBI about what they need to cover up next.
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"Open channel D." =D [tinfoil]
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The chair has a long mustache.
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Climb Mount Niitaka
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The chair has a long mustache.
How many lights does the chair see?
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The chair has a long mustache.
John is against the wall?
Wonder how many of this forum's youngsters got "Open Channel D" or "Climb Mount Niitaka" without resorting to Google . . .
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Sounds like there's potential to have a lot of fun with an "encrypted" phone you know - know! - is being monitored.
Sounds to me like that would have the same consequences as joking about boombs in an aerodrome or some other things. "Just for fun" doesn't go as far as it used to.
:tinfoil: The misspelling was deliberate. :cool:
I seem to rek'lect when it was illegal for the U.S. government to spy on U.S. citizens so the U.S. enlisted Great Britain to do the actual spying and report back to the U.S.
Where there's a kill, there's a way.
Terry, 230RN
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John is against the wall?
Wonder how many of this forum's youngsters got "Open Channel D" or "Climb Mount Niitaka" without resorting to Google . . .
I am sure I have come across that in a past movie or documentary, but it wasn't a detail that ever stood out.
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I am sure I have come across that in a past movie or documentary, but it wasn't a detail that ever stood out.
Well, for other readers of the forum, the thing is, it's been repeated a lot on this board, especially around June 6, D-day, but it has spread to anytime coding or secrecy is involved.
It refers to the coded messages the BBC was sending to the French underground. "John (Jean) has a long moustache" was one of the phrases and "The chair is against the wall" was another. The movie was "The Longest Day."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(film)
Terry, 230RN
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I was talking about "Climb Mount Niitaka".
The others sounded like some variation of Red Dawn quotes. =)
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I was talking about "Climb Mount Niitaka".
Coded message sent to the Kido Butai (Japanese 1st air fleet) to proceed with the Pearl Harbor attack. And no I did not need to look that up.
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Coded message sent to the Kido Butai (Japanese 1st air fleet) to proceed with the Pearl Harbor attack. And no I did not need to look that up.
I already looked it up. I didn't want to spoil everyone else's fun. =)
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I already looked it up. I didn't want to spoil everyone else's fun. =)
I figure anyone who didn't know and wanted to already looked it up.
How about a little related trivia? Included with the message was the date the PH attack was to occur on, what was the date in the message?
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I figure anyone who didn't know and wanted to already looked it up.
How about a little related trivia? Included with the message was the date the PH attack was to occur on, what was the date in the message?
I know the answer but, like Stringfellow Hawke's pilot buddy in Airwolf, I ain't sayin'."
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Got all the references. I guess that makes me an "Olde Pharte".
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In the spirit of fairplay/not looking it up, what was "Open Channel D"?
Got the rest because I'm an old movie/history channel nerd.
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I already looked it up. I didn't want to spoil everyone else's fun. =)
Oh, was tht supposed to be one of those "I know something you don't know" seekrits? Sorry. Loose keyboards sink ships.
D'ja get that one? Huh? Huh? D'ja get it? <elbow dig> <elbow dig>
I didn't get the Channel D one, had to look it up. I did not like that show, so didn't watch it enough to catch that one.
Sorry to spoil everyone's fun. Now you know why I don't get invited to parties.
Terry, pooper thereof, 230RN
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Sorry
Edit: For spoiling the Climb Mount Niitaka bit
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Sorry
Yeah. LIked your cat remark. All the FBI gets lately from my phone with Son2 is conversation about the 6.5 Creedmoor rifle he is building.
He was surprised to learn what Creedmoor meant and that I actually worked at Creedmoor State Hospital in 1963, which is what it ultimately became after they closed down the shooting range due to increasing population density out there on Long Island.
Claim to fame: It was only a bus ride for me to get to Creedmoor Hospital, where the National Matches used to be held. <pats own back>
Terry, 230RN
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In the spirit of fairplay/not looking it up, what was "Open Channel D"?
Got the rest because I'm an old movie/history channel nerd.
Those words were the way Napoleon Solo - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - began his radio calls. (His radio was built into a pen.)
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Ah, never saw that one.
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Posted on wrong thread. Duh, me.
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Those words were the way Napoleon Solo - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - began his radio calls. (His radio was built into a pen.)
I LOVED "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."! I even had the gun/briefcase toy.
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I did too! I wish I still had it. I think I had it because of my father...
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Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) was my favorite.
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Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) was my favorite.
Didn't he look a lot like a young Dr. Mallard ("Ducky") on NCIS?
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Didn't he look a lot like a young Dr. Mallard ("Ducky") on NCIS?
Strictly a coincidence, I'm sure.
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Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) was my favorite.
Did you see "Mosquito Squadron"? I just came across it on Youtube, and kind of enjoyed it.
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Driving home tonight I saw the city or rodeo board was installing internet on the town square. I'm thinking at the end of the month there will be one or two FBI surveillance vans set up on that wifi. I need to see what I have here.
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Driving home tonight I saw the city or rodeo board was installing internet on the town square. I'm thinking at the end of the month there will be one or two FBI surveillance vans set up on that wifi. I need to see what I have here.
Stingray, Cellhawk, they have been listening for years. Don't know why the felt the need to push a phone.
bob
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Didn't he look a lot like a young Dr. Mallard ("Ducky") on NCIS?
Naaaaaaaw, Illya Kuryakin was MUCH younger...
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Climb Mount Niitaka
TORA! TORA! TORA!
A good movie. =D