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How to Maintain Internet Access Even If Your Government Turns It Off
This is a great companion article to the brief article I posted yesterday about the expected increasing growing civil unrest and violence worldwide that will be the fallout from Central Banks' highly inflationary fiat currency devaluation schemes. If mass civil unrest strikes a country, a government may respond by banning internet access and severely restricting information flow. To address this concern, Patrick Miller & David Daw just published an article to let you know how you can maintain your freedom of information even when your government tries to ban this right.
I've reprinted some of the most pertinent excerpts from Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts it Down, by Patrick Miller & David Daw below. I figured that this information will probably be useful to someone living in a country where the next revolution is brewing.
"Even if you've managed to find an Internet connection for yourself,
it won't be that helpful in reaching out to your fellow locals if they
can't get online to find you. If you're trying to coordinate a group
of people in your area and can't rely on an Internet connection, cell
phones, or SMS, your best bet could be a wireless mesh network
of sorts--essentially, a distributed network of wireless networking
devices that can all find each other and communicate with each other.
Even if none of those devices have a working Internet connection, they
can still find each other, which, if your network covers the city
you're in, might be all you need. At the moment, wireless mesh
networking isn't really anywhere close to market-ready, though we have
seen an implementation of the 802.11s draft standard, which extends the
802.11 Wi-Fi standard to include wireless mesh networking, in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop."
"However, a prepared guerrilla networker with a handful of PCs could make good use of Daihinia
($25, 30-day free trial), an app that piggybacks on your Wi-Fi adapter
driver to turn your normal ad-hoc Wi-Fi network into a multihop ad-hoc
network (disclaimer: we haven't tried this ourselves yet), meaning that
instead of requiring each device on the network to be within range of
the original access point, you simply need to be within range of a
device on the network that has Daihinia installed, effectively allowing
you to add a wireless mesh layer to your ad-hoc network. Advanced freedom fighters can set up a portal Web page on their network
that explains the way the setup works, with Daihinia instructions and a
local download link so they can spread the network even further.
Lastly, just add a Bonjour-compatible chat client like Pidgin or iChat, and you'll be able to talk to your neighbors across the city without needing an Internet connection."
"[Another alternative is] FidoNet--a
distributed networking system for BBSes that was popular in the 1980s.
FidoNet is limited to sending only simple text messages, and it's
slow, but it has two virtues: Users connect asynchronously, so the
network traffic is harder to track, and any user can act as the server,
which means that even if the government shuts down one number in the
network, another one can quickly pop up to take its place."
"You could also take inspiration from groups that are working to
create an ad-hoc communications network into and out of Egypt using Ham Radio,
since the signals are rarely tracked and extremely hard to shut down
or block. Most of these efforts are still getting off the ground, but
hackers are already cobbling together ways to make it a viable form of
communication into and out of the country. Given enough time and preparation, your ham radio networks could even be adapted into your own ad-hoc network using Packet Radio,
a radio communications protocol that you can use to create simple
long-distance wireless networks to transfer text and other messages
between computers. Packet Radio is rather slow and not particularly
popular (don't try to stream any videos with this, now), but it's
exactly the kind of networking device that would fly under the radar."
"In response to the crisis in Egypt, nerds everywhere have risen to
call for new and exciting tools for use in the next government-mandated
shutdown. Bre Pettis, founder of the hackerspace NYC Resistor and creator of the MakerbotApps for the Appocalypse,"
including a quick and easy way to set up chats on a local network so
you can talk with your friends and neighbors in an emergency even
without access to the Internet. If his comments are any indication,
Appocalypse apps may be headed your way soon. Tons of cool tech are also just waiting to be retrofitted for these purposes. David Dart's Pirate Box
is a one-step local network in a box originally conceived for file
sharing and local P2P purposes, but it wouldn't take much work to adapt
the Pirate Box as a local networking tool able to communicate with
other pirate boxes to form a compact, mobile set of local networks in
the event of an Internet shutdown."
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CB radio. Hey buddy got your ears on? They'll set an EMP off if they really want to end com......
Those bunkers are looking better with every day that passes! And I thought they were all nuts!
So how do we maintain a network if there's an EMP?
You don't.
Unless you have carrier pigeons or two tin cans and a very long string.
Old time, 50s era vacuum tube transceivers are naturally hardenened for EMPs, so the old gear has value. With modern solid state systems, you would need to store the gear so it is insulated from the surrounding well-grounded metal box- called a Faraday cage. It conducts the damaging EMP overvoltage around and away from your protected circuits. Cars and pull start lawn mowers with old style magneto distributors would probably start but not much else. Back up generators would need to be inside the cage. Got spares? is a great question for critical circuits in your business or vital operating systems. EMP would kill all the Ready Kilowatt circuitry, for a long time, so make no short term plans if your planning.
Anyone familiar with pre-paid satellite phones, like Satellite One or Iridium? I'm not sure the "last mile" would work if the gov't pulled the plug on telecommunications nationally, but could be worth looking into at some point.
http://twitter.com/Sandmonkey
I've followed his blog on and off for a few years, he was arrested, it appears just after posting something titled Eygpt Now...and then this happened:
http://www.sandmonkey.org/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
an implementation of the mesh network 802.11s is out for Windoze, Linux and FreeBSD.
Not yet out for MacOSX. However, the Parallels product allows running all 3 of the above operating systems on a MacBook or MacBook Pro.
Introducing the Elecraft Ultra Portable CW (morse code QRP transceiver)
Nice, WB. Also, transceivers are not difficult to build with a basic knowledge of electronics and the proper tools. But, there are many used Ham radios available out there for sale. I have a closet full of them, from newer rigs to old WW2 Hallicrafters. Although ham transmissions can ge detected and triangulated, it is almost impossible if one integrates a computer with the radio and sends burst transmissions. The real art is to learn how to build "guerilla" antennas, i.e., small but efficient, broadband antennas that can be erected and taken down, used inside, or camouflaged...after all, a Moonraker Six mounted on a 100 ft. mask is pretty easy to detect.
Even the US Coast Guard has thrown in the towel on morse code though hams know it wil get through when all else is obscured with static, etc. Hand held CB's with 4 watt power can be boosted to be stronger base stations, but not very easily if they are all solid state. The FCC busted some kids broadcasting out of a truck, so there is real monitoring of pirate broadcasts, etc. Old Hallicrafter receivers, etc with vacuum tubes make great radio monitors, so you can hear news which will be suppressed along with net access if that happens. I have a new GE CB transceiver 3-5980 which I bought for emergency use and the one time I tested it, all I heard was ignorant truckers using extremely vulgar language, not very interesting or useful except to show the unit worked well. These units are now "obsolete", though there are similar kits for less than $50 USD.
You can take the wattage of a CB radio very high with multiple stage amplifiers. On SSB, with around 25 Watt PEP, you can crank up to 100 watt quite easily with a solid state amp. You can use ones intended for the Ham 10 meter band which you then can drive a final tube amp up to 1000 watts or so, but distortion becomes an issue. I stopped a long time ago sending code by hand, and went to computer generated code from a word processor. You can take several pages of text and burst it out in a matter of seconds. I never used CB much, but do have a few old units left over from the early eighties, most of my stuff is Ham receivers/transceivers.
Thanks for the rundown.
Mr. Steve.
I want to upgrade my handheld ham receiver and separate multiband radio.
Got any recs?
I understand your point about older EMP proof equip, but I need small (er) lightweight to go mobile on a dual if necessary.
Hey, Chumba, what were you going to do with those 56k modems?
Anyone, is "shutting down the internet" essentially turning off the DNS servers or what?
WW the ones that are the important DNS servers are the big 13 ICANN servers. All other DNS servers everywhere else would point to these. Interestingly enough I do believe 12 of them are in the US and one in UK. I would have to verify this.
I remember talk about other countries wanting to add more ICANN servers since so many of them were in the US. Not sure if anything has changed yet on that front.
This topic sure is interesting.
By and large if civil unrest gets so bad in the US that fedgov flips the internet kill switch, you want a small multiband radio for short wave radio broad casts and a handheld ham reciever. Going mobile might be the best thing and what saves your life.
Don't forget, the Nazis shot people who were found with radios.
They shot lots of people that didn't have radios. Shoot first.
Yeah. No kidding.
Some ham and multiband receivers are only about 4 in. tall and w/ antenna only 6-7 in. tall. Easy to hide.
I'll take my chances.
Got batteries and solar charger.
I'm good to go.
Hell yeah, brother.
Add some mobile sattellite comm gear. Expensive
but reliable with clear line of sight.
Some genius needs to create generic modem boards with some robust data protocol on FPGA and some basic soft encryption keyes.
From there you open up your commercial UHF transceiver and patch it in. Not saying it's easy but it should be doable. There's lot's of fleet radios and some data radio equpment around in 450-470 range. Some of these transmitters are remarkable powerful and with good antenna placement could reach 20-30 miles.
Need a pilot and system test...
Crystal, bitchez!
http://www.ehow.com/crystal-radio/
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good info.
Timely article.
These resources have to be communicated and developed urgently so a non-statist organic emergency broadcast network can spontaneously emerge and thrive in the face of imposed government oppression anywhere.
We the people are the web.
Information must remain free to achieve and preserve true liberty.
Yea, this was the last research project our company was doing before we totally shut-down R&D. We were going to update the old FIDO-Net tools to work turn-key with WI-FI and auto-discovery, the works. Had a REALLY hard time finding people who even knew what FIDO Net was
We studied this issue quite a bit for our article on net neutrality title A Moveable Beast. As far as we've been able to discover, a hacker named Jaromil and his dyne:bolic project would seem to be the most intriguing solution. It definitely incorporates a "love thy neighbor - peer to peer" aesthetic. Here's a link to our post on this from a few months ago. Netsukuku also figures into this in a big way for tunneling. http://tradewithdave.com/?p=3893
Here's the link to A Moveable Beast: http://tradewithdave.com/?p=4261
Dave Harrison
tradewithdave.com
Yeah, provided you have electric! A SW radio is always good to have and a group of people you can trust to help you out.
SW radio=federal license. CB & walkie talkie=no license. Small solar charger takes care of the electric.
Clutch!
I've seen CB radio mentioned, but for walkie-talkie use the family radios are better, with clearer signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service
RIDING OVER DEMONSTRATORS seems to be a favorite game as well !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1lrUhs7GR6A#
http://www.fastcompany.com/1721753/egypt-internet-kill-switch
Bush was an elite and far from perfect but he never talked about shutting off the Internet like Hussein. Where are those crappy little leftists posting here like that phony George Washington?
Freddie,
----> Jihad Georgie has self-destructed. He required/requires no help.
The mask came off, and he has shown his true colors. Prior, more subtle lies have now become brazen lies; and there can be no more doubts about his agenda. The masquerade is over. Many saw through it long ago.
Bush built the detention camps, Obama will put you there. Honkey
hey Freddie, you're familiar with team sports, right? like there are minutes and quarters to the game(s), some players sit out portions, some pass a ball, some carry it. . . but it's a TEAM sport played over TIME. . . to keep it going, everyone plays a part, some lay the groundwork for a "score" - some actually make the scoring play. . .
the governing elite are a big team, and you're not on it. . . you're the "other" side, not just the "leftists" - ponder.
Freddie just can't seem to wrap his mind around it. Everything's the fault of "liberals", right Freddie? If only we'd elected Mcain/Palin instead of that liberal muslim Obama all would be well, right Freddie? Right???
Donald? Is that you?
I think I'd quickly lose my mind if I couldn't get my daily dose of ZH. I mean, really lose my mind, like attempt-to-bring-down-the-government lose my mind.
@ BigJim
There is no doubt that the guns would come out and revolution would be here if they shut off the 'Net.
That would be like trying to take our guns and gold. Take away liberties like these means game over for you .gov...
Buenos dias DoChen.
Best way to connect to the internet. (if internet is cut off) is to have either an aol account or a foreign email account and have all the oversees phone numbers for aol connection with a modem.
Thus, you dial another country's aol connection phone number and you are outside the system. That assumes that land line phones are working.
Don't get rid of your phone modems or land lines.
Cheers mates
BTW: the last time I used that method was in Thailand 14 years ago. I could not find a local AOL phone connection number. I dialed the Indonesian aol number which was already in the computers memory and by adding the 00 and the country code in front, I got connected straight up.
Hillary has already set the bar pretty high with her admonition to Egypt to turn the Internet back on. It would be hard to step back from that base line -- not that "they" wouldn't try first.
It has been getting rather difficult to gather actionable intelligence on the Egyptian malcontents with it off.
Brining down the government will get you nowhere. You have to bring down Lord Blankfein, J. Dimon, George Soros, Carlos Slim and his better connected associates, John Mack, Larry Fink, W Dudley, the members of the CFR, Bilderbergers, and The Society.
Otherwise they just mutate and viola! in a year you have to take the government down again.
Maybe the above is the "government" (Hydra) to which BigJim was referring?
Edit: Simultaneous post...we're on the same page!
Mate! "Lord Blankfein, J. Dimon, George Soros, Carlos Slim and his better connected associates, John Mack, Larry Fink, W Dudley, the members of the CFR, Bilderbergers, and The Society" are the government.
Completely OT, but without the internet, I couldn't listen, mouth agape, to things like this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jake_shimabukuro_plays_bohemian_rhapsody.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-02-01&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email