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Everybody should start using radios instead of cell phones
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2024-12-16 at 3:47 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fluttershy i only use nintendo pictochat to have any incriminating conversations. all other methods of conversation have been compromised by US intellegence.
or foriegn intellegence.
the only absolutely secure way other than already described is meeting in a halo : reach lobby and spelling out your messages on the walls in bullets -
2024-12-16 at 7:10 AM UTCNo response, leet haxxor confirmed
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2024-12-16 at 9:01 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fluttershy or foriegn intellegence.
the only absolutely secure way other than already described is meeting in a halo : reach lobby and spelling out your messages on the walls in bullets
iirc that was actually thing in the 2000s, at least one 'terror' group sent messages by logging into XBL, saving a draft message, then his friends would log into the same account to read it -
2024-12-16 at 6:46 PM UTCMy first office type job around 1984 I used to use a Telex machine, it was like text messaging before text messaging was a thing.
They had a "directory inquiries" number and I remember chatting with one of the operators about something and she started asking me personal questions so I disconnected...unbeknown to me she could remotely turn the fucking thing on and start typing back. I heard it come on and went to look at the green screen monitor and she's asking "Why did you drop the connection???" "why would you do that?!?" etc etc.
Like a spurned lover...
Jiggaboo Johnson, ghosting E-lovers online since 1984 before ghosting was even thought of. -
2024-12-16 at 7 PM UTC
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2024-12-19 at 6:17 AM UTC
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2024-12-19 at 6:48 AM UTC
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2024-12-19 at 10:57 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fluttershy Theres really no point when online encrypted communications are so easy to use and readily available.
Radio signals can be tracked, listened in on, or transmitted over if you don't know what you're doing and most people don't. Not to mention, at least here in the US there are many HAM enthusiasts who are so old and ornery and have so much time on their hands they make speedy parker look young again, who can and will hunt you down and report you to the authorities for improper use of equipment.
Plus I'm sure any criminal organization (or any organization) probably isn't exclusively using radio signals for communication, it's likely just used to subsidize other methods of short distance communications (I.E. sensitive information is still likely communicated through encrypted messaging software)
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2024-12-19 at 11:22 AM UTC
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2024-12-19 at 2:12 PM UTCCB radio was a thing when I was a young son of a bitch, we all had one, I'm not going to tell you what my "handle" was.
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2024-12-19 at 2:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by 🦄🌈 MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING - vaxxed and octoboosted 💉 (we beat covid!) 👬💕👭🍀 (🍩✊) What did you do? Were you just sending messages? Telex was basically just a remote typewriter.
The telex I used had a greenscreen monitor and when chatting the text appeared "real time" on the screen. It was more like direct messaging on BBS or IRC really...though you "dialed" a number as I recall.
At the time I was working for an Air Charter brokers, we did a lot of air ambulance work so I'd be using the telex machine quite a bit trying to find private aircraft availability for hire. We'd get a requisition for an air ambulance and we'd then have to source the plane to do the pickup/drop off etc which involved going through our database of air charter companies operating out of nearby airports to the requirement, seeing if they had a plane available for immediate use and how much they wanted. A typical cost back then was around 750 quid (1984). At the time I thought that was an enormous amount of money
We also flew rockstars around, the woman I worked with took care of Elton John and got invited to his wedding in Australia. -
2024-12-19 at 2:40 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson CB radio was a thing when I was a young son of a bitch, we all had one, I'm not going to tell you what my "handle" was.
When I was 15 they built a bypass for St Rt 82 around my home town through a swamp. They hauled dirt from a huge ridge about 4 to 10 miles from the swamp section of the project for almost two years to create a stable bed for a four lane interstate style highway.
My Dad bought three tri-axel dump trucks, hired 6 drivers, and ran those for 16 hours a day during that phase as a sub contractor. One if those drivers was a cousin who was 25 at the time.
My Dad put a CB radio on the roof and a base station on the desk in my room. I spent the next two years using the CB to take food and beer orders, initially from my cousin and in quick order from a bunch of drivers.
In return they would give me weed, white crosses, black beauties, eskatrol and other shit fir a runners fee. I would take that shit to school and make a tidy sum for a kid in the 70s.
My handle? No big deal. It was the Corsair Kid. Hey, I was fifteen, had started my Saturday flight lessons at the regional airport, and still think the Chance Vought F4U Corsair is the sexiest machine ever built by mankind. Hell, my '15 Chief Classic is wrapped as a tribute to the Corsair, VMF-214, and Colonel Gregory (Pappy) Boyington.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
