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Defqon.1 Weekend Festival is an annual music festival held in the Netherlands. In the past, it was also held in Chile and Australia . Founded in 2003 by festival organizer Q-dance , the festival plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as rawstyle, hardcore , early and classic.
DEFCON levels. The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. [1] [2] For security reasons, the US military does not announce a DEFCON level to the public. [1] The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and specified combatant commands. [3]
The term frequently used is "on high alert". [1] Examples scales indicating alert state are the DEFCON levels of the US military, [2] South Korea's "Jindogae" system, [3] and the UK Threat Levels. [4] High alert states are synonymous with "red alert". [5]
On 1 April 2001, an American EP-3 Aries sigint plane collided midair with a J-8II interceptor south of Hainan. The Chinese pilot died and the American plane was forced to land in Hainan island. [10] PLA Forces on the were placed on level 1 readiness for a short period, until negotiations started with the US.
DEF CON (also written as DEFCON, Defcon, or DC) is a hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.The first DEF CON took place in June 1993 and today many attendees at DEF CON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers, students, and hackers with a general interest in software, computer architecture, hardware ...
In the United States, DEFCON is a defense alert state (numbered 1–5) used by the Armed Forces. In the United Kingdom, DEFCON refers to numbered defence contract conditions issued by the Ministry of Defence .
There are five levels of INFOCON, which recently changed to more closely correlate to DEFCON levels. They are: INFOCON 5 describes a situation where there is no apparent hostile activity against computer networks. Operational performance of all information systems is monitored, and password systems are used as a layer of protection.
EMERGCON (emergency condition) is a state of readiness that is separate from DEFCON, or defense readiness condition used by the United States, in that it incorporates civilian measures in addition to the DEFCON military measures. [citation needed]