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Russia forces are outnumbered for invasion from the begining.

No surprise there.

Just block all outgoing traffic to AS15169 on your firewall.

Deadliest war on planet is not waged by humans, but supercolonies of ants.

It's usually needed only minor part of it. You dont need to code whole GUI library. Only what you need to solve specific task.

Software programmer usually need to solve specific task, not worlds problems. If you go too generalized you will need 10x, 100x or 1000x more amount of time and code.

Look at Big tech, this is what they are doing, they employ thousands workers that write millions of lines of code every day, only to make it work for every case in a world. And still can't compete with specialized solution.

Build things by KISS principle.

Dependencies will complicate system you are building. ( with things like supply chain attacks, bloat, liscensing etc...)

Keep it simple, just don't use dependencies.

True for Packet switching, it was concieved ( Baran early 60s, Davies 1965) to "withstand heavy enemy attacks".

Decommissioned Internet precursor ARPANET was allegedly designed " to meet the needs of military command and control against nuclear threats,"

Im not sure about todays Internet, some say it is largely centralized. Other military networks have been separated from it.

In some cases whole countries were taken off from Internet by someone cutting backbone cable with a shovel.

> These days, closing down communications focuses on the enemy’s internet capabilities.

It's mostly pictures of cats and memes.

> Intelsat-12 is a bent-pipe satellite, whose "dumb" transponders rebroadcast anything that they receive within their frequency band. Bent-pipe satellites remain the most common technology today, with no real defenses against such attacks.[1][2]

[1] https://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/06/ltte-technologica...

[2] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA487592.pdf

When I read satellite hacking I recall Tamil LTTE ,hack of Intelsat.

> A fusion of biology and tech

Yes, many believe so.On skin mobile phones powered by body energy.

Or it could be dead end. Smartphones haven't change much in few years. Same form factor, same OS. It is boring.

Sounds like guy is proposing usage of Signal app, and maybe "flashing custom ROM",

"special issue smartphone"? Good luck on that, producing your own smartphone . And you are going to need to produce it to avoid hardware and software backdoors.

Encryption is only for protecting message content.

Nobody said that encryption will save you from enemy knowing who you are, where you are, who you talking to, etc.

If old don't understand smartphones. Thats a valid reason for not using it. For anything important.

> In November 2019, the young minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, Dmytro Dubilet, proposed...

Thats a classic, you never read that "old and experienced" official propose smartphones. Maybe they know something that young doesn't.

I prefer be able to pay bills, new way and old way.

Because WSHTF principle.

I'm preparing that someday maybe i would not be able to use smartphone or internet or bank or electricity or any other single point of failure the system depends on.

Allegedly some guy Allison Nixon claims that WhiteDoxbin is ringleader of LAPSUS, and this guy White happened to be doxed. More here : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/a-closer-look-at-the-lap...

Didn't know that you can buy ads for microlocations, interesting.

Im thinking how navigation can work on feature phone.

Possible solution and an idea for project : you connect Alexa / Cortana / Siri / voice chatbot to phone number and then you just call whenever need internet from feature phone a.k.a. "dumbphone"

Instant messaging was why I bought smartphone in first place. Could as well used it on laptop. On street? No way, it is distracting.

I remember when i used dumbphone,and i had to find certain location I just called person to find me location. It worked allright.

You need to check traffic? Just call someone at the internet.

I also had system with "dumbphone" to receive alerts on SMS. from online machine.

It's a lot like hot air.

I suppose there are only few things you want to be doing, and there are infinite things you don't want to do.

There is tendency You will be doing what you don't want to do. If you let it.

> What are some other things you've seen #programmers do that piss you off?

When told to forward message to other coworker say you will do it, then don't.

Can someone explain, how can this be used over unsecure networks. You still have metadata leak. Right? Operator knows exactly who is talking to whom(?) An sees that it is encrypted, then just prevents communication or sends someone to location.

Do we know how "Era" works in theory?

Im interested in how can possibly 3g be secure for communication.

Why they need cellular towers? Maybe to TikTok or Tweet?

I dont understand this news article.

1. It claims russian used unsecure 3g with local SIM cards, and were intercepted

Then:

2. It claims russian couldn't use "Era" because they destroyed 3g/4g towers.

Is this two unrelated events or same?

"Cyber war" is bed time story for kids.