The best part is watching the drama by the morons who are addicted to paranoid conspiracy theories on Reddit and YouTube. Especially the guy on the S2 Underground and DecoyVoice channels. The S2 guy sorta had the right idea about the value of amateur radio for survivalists. But he and the DecoyVoice guy have gone off the deep end, ......
I just stumbled across the S2 videos the other day and watched a couple. He went into elaborate detail about "secure comms" and how to "not get tracked".
After a while I found myself wondering what this guy was even talking about. If you watch any YouTube videos on RF, sooner or later the algorithm dangles these things front of you.
Sorry - moderator going off topic 
On topic - l tried to look at the Bottle Cap Balloon website just this morning since the group is in my area. Their server will not respond. They must be swamped.
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Well, it's more or less on topic because social media algorithms do "suggest" (nudge, push, shove) inflammatory and divisive clickbait at us that's only vaguely related to topics we're actually interested in. That's how the S2 Underground channel was suggested to me by YouTube -- because I've subbed to some radio related channels. The S2 guy has chattered about radio. I subbed just to get an idea of where he's going with this stuff.
He gives the impression of being authoritative, but after listening to enough of his videos for a few months, he seems like an armchair operator, someone who reads a lot of stuff on Reddit and conspiracy sites relevant to military and intel, just enough to memorize some buzzwords and pretend to know the subject. But he's mostly blowing smoke.
His credibility fell apart recently with his posts on the Chinese balloon incident. He had nothing of substance to say, but rambled on for half an hour with wild speculation about dire consequences, sounding genuinely frightened and confused. He's a blowhard with zero credibility. Ditto, the DecoyVoice dude, who mostly posts wingnut shill fear bait. But his channel was recommended to me by YouTube, presumably because I've subbed to S2 Underground, Mike Glover Actual (another former military guy who's gone off the deep end recently) and others, mostly out of idle curiosity.
But it's easy to see how people get sucked into that vortex when they're primed to believe the end is always nigh, the barbarians are always at the gates, and it's always Apocalypse Now o' clock.
Never mind the more reasonable and mundane explanations that occasional security lapses occur, balloons are rarely considered a significant security risk, the national infrastructure is crumbling due to years of neglect from under-funding, and, as Walt Kelly's Pogo put it years ago, "We have met the enemy and he is us," (spoofing the Oliver Hazard Perry quote from the 19th century).