Can anyone tell me why Typhoon93 is banned please?
and having succeeded in getting him banned .. probably by umpteen "reports" .. the bullies now do the self justification bit .... not needed if it was a genuine "troll" as the Mods would have dealt with it weeks ago, however the "vocal posters" who seem to be trying to now run the forum must have their say ... much to the detriment of the forum IMHO.
A shame perhaps that Typhoon does not seem to have taken greater account of Danny's excellent advice in Gaining An R.A.F Pilots Brevet In WW11 namely:
"Welcome Aboard ! You must be about our youngest member - and can look forward to being our Oldest Inhabitant ca (20)85 if the Thread lasts that long (and you always remember to fly ''Low and Slow, with plenty of Top Rudder on the Corners'') - and listen to the Ancient Aviator over in the corner, bearing in mind the fact that he is Still Here while many others are Not....D."
Jack
"Welcome Aboard ! You must be about our youngest member - and can look forward to being our Oldest Inhabitant ca (20)85 if the Thread lasts that long (and you always remember to fly ''Low and Slow, with plenty of Top Rudder on the Corners'') - and listen to the Ancient Aviator over in the corner, bearing in mind the fact that he is Still Here while many others are Not....D."
Jack
Personally I had nothing against him. He just seemed like one of those kids you get at school who always want to hang about with the big boys, even though they either ignore him or tell him to bugger off.
I was going to calculate how long it was going to take him to catch up with Beagle, as he was posting at 3 per day, but I discovered that Beagle's rate is over 4 a day, so those graphs were never going to cross (especially in view of Beagle's great age
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I was going to calculate how long it was going to take him to catch up with Beagle, as he was posting at 3 per day, but I discovered that Beagle's rate is over 4 a day, so those graphs were never going to cross (especially in view of Beagle's great age
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And I'm not attempting to be rude, but the all the sarcastic observations about GR4s over France suggests that you don't quite understand how gathering OSI works...
GR4 over France at (say) 2216 on a Friday? File that away.
Next week - ooh, look. GR4 over France again, same sort of time.
The week after - well, I never. There's a GR4 over France.
Pattern starting to develop, d'you think? What of it, you ask? Google 'pattern of life intelligence'...
FOI requests - well yes, actually. If you know the system, then you know that it diverts effort. And then gives you either information or pieces of a jigsaw or hints as to what to look for through other sources. At a low-level, FOI requests see your enemy causing himself disruption and doing your part of your collection activity for you...
I moderated a forum once (indeed, until about two weeks ago). An acquaintance made me a moderator of his forum without asking; he was/is a decent sort so I did it to help out, even if the subject (football) doesn't exactly fire my enthusiasm. We once had a chap who turned up on the forum. Living in Italy in an idyllic rural setting, a regular spectator at one of their Serie A teams, witty, amusing, in his mid-20s, posted photos of matches he'd been to and of him with fellow fans and sometimes with footballers he'd met.
Great. Until the site owner, I and another moderator got a sense that something wasn't quite right.
And it wasn't. He was posting 'live' match reports from his seat on the halfway line in the Italian club's stadium. From an IP address in Reading...
And the photographs of him with various well-known international footballers were stolen from someone's Facebook page (a genuine fan of the team this bod claimed to be a supporter of). And some of the ones from games were taken from elsewhere on the web.
Whereupon, with an hour to kill, I looked at the snippets of information he'd given about himself. And then found little inconsistencies - nothing you'd notice in the context of an easily-forgotten post, but taken together?
He'd built himself a legend, for purposes unknown (because after putting it to him that he was shovelling bovine organic product faster than a JCB on rocket fuel, he asked for his account to be deleted). But he was plausible and he clearly wasn't just there for the chat.
My point is that your certainty that T93 is an enthusiastic wannabe who has been done down is misplaced. You can't be certain.
On the balance of probability, I happen to think that you're correct about him being nothing more than an over-eager sort asking daft questions. The problem was, his enthusiasm had got to the 'Terrier attaches itself to leg of vicar when you've invited the good Reverend round for tea and scones, and promptly rubs itself up and down the man's trousers despite all attempts to dissuade it' level of enthusiasm, which will always evoke a negative response...
It's nice that OPSEC has become a theme in this thread, there are clearly some people that need a reminder so some good comes of it. It's rife on internet forums, this need to keep up a personal appearance of knowledge with a lower regard for how that small snippet of information, one bit at a time, always feeds into a bigger intelligence picture.
Archimedes has said it all well. Sarcastic remarks around T93 being North Korean intelligence just show the level of naivety. None of you know who he or she is. Not grounds for a ban maybe, but a great reminder that you know very, very little about who is asking questions about capabilities on military fora, and why.
Archimedes has said it all well. Sarcastic remarks around T93 being North Korean intelligence just show the level of naivety. None of you know who he or she is. Not grounds for a ban maybe, but a great reminder that you know very, very little about who is asking questions about capabilities on military fora, and why.
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We still have capabilities?
Good joke, but talking about what lack of capabilities we have (in detail) is just as useful an intelligence tool, and something people on PPRuNe seem just as happy to spill their guts on.
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Agreed, but in this day and age a lot of what is mentioned is generally out there in the public domain, that said if in doubt keep quiet. Totally agree the web can be deceiving when it comes to talking about things... Myself I won't even do online banking as I feel it is insecure, strange but true... I am a firm believer in the, if software is written by man it can be hacked by man.
I do hope the Mods see this thread for what it has become, it is reminding everybody about the need to be more diligent about what one posts.
I do hope the Mods see this thread for what it has become, it is reminding everybody about the need to be more diligent about what one posts.
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The funny thing is that while what you say about a bigger intelligence picture is true, who on earth would bother to listen to T93 for info.
The G limits for the F35 are available already in PPRuNe threads, and posters give away official secrets on a daily basis in the military forum.
It's been interesting to watch posters be suspicious of T93s questions while happy to tell all kinds of things if asked by other posters. I am fairly confident that most of the things I'm thinking of have NOT been run past a security or media person before being typed on this public forum.
I have no idea why T93 was banned, but do know an awful lot of stuff is posted here that isn't open source, and would be useful for evil doers to know........
As an example, I'm sure a lot more was published on PPRuNe about Merlins hot and high performance and serviceability than the government wanted to be released to the world
The funny thing is that while what you say about a bigger intelligence picture is true, who on earth would bother to listen to T93 for info.
The G limits for the F35 are available already in PPRuNe threads, and posters give away official secrets on a daily basis in the military forum.
It's been interesting to watch posters be suspicious of T93s questions while happy to tell all kinds of things if asked by other posters. I am fairly confident that most of the things I'm thinking of have NOT been run past a security or media person before being typed on this public forum.
I have no idea why T93 was banned, but do know an awful lot of stuff is posted here that isn't open source, and would be useful for evil doers to know........
As an example, I'm sure a lot more was published on PPRuNe about Merlins hot and high performance and serviceability than the government wanted to be released to the world
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I think we can safely say Nutloose is harmless. I reckon I've read about half of his nearly 9,,000 posts. One or two were interesting, the rest were the harmless dribbling of someone doing well on care in the community.
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I can see you tied to a post and zeroed in for a mortar shell if you ever visit my country Salad Dodger..
