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Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down
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| January 31, 2011
| By Patrick Miller, David Daw, PCWorld
Posted on 01/31/2011 9:10:22 PM PST by Mechanicos
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This article discusses ways to keep connected if the internet is shut down like in Egypt.
To: Mechanicos
We need to launch a satellite. Let’s call it Freepnik. It’ll be our moment.
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:11:40 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: Mechanicos
Sorry, I won't have time to be on the internet. I'll be in my country, ridding it of tyrants that think they have the power to shut the internet down.
/johnny
To: Mechanicos
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:12:26 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
To: Mechanicos
Yeah...well they can deal with the 20-30million armed Americans showing up in DC looking for that switch....
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:15:00 PM PST
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
To: Mechanicos; ShadowAce; Swordmaker
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:17:09 PM PST
by
tubebender
(The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
To: Mechanicos
To: Mechanicos
Now, If I could just rig a connection for a crystal set radio to my laptop...
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:18:02 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: mo
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:24:04 PM PST
by
magslinger
(Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
To: Mechanicos
Does anyone make a WiFi`d AK-47?
To: Mechanicos
To: Mechanicos
The author concludes with FidoNet over dial-up phone lines and packet radio over ham airwaves, both of which are easily shut down by a hostile government.
No mention in the article of using powerlines for communication. Shutting down electricity to a population tends to rally people against said government, forcing hard choices on a tyrant: either leave up that communications avenue, or else alienate everyone by cutting off power.
Also, no mention of mass print communications (read: newspapers and pamphlets), both of which are considerably more difficult to police and shut down...and both of which are commonly used in wartime for propaganda dissemination.
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:26:10 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Army Air Corps
The article discusses that for Ham Radios...
To: southland
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:26:43 PM PST
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: The Comedian; SunkenCiv; OneVike; Silentgypsy
To: Southack
No mention in the article of using powerlines for communication.Educate pls.
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:48:28 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
To: Lazamataz
Data can be transmitted over powerlines.
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:51:47 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Army Air Corps
What would be their rationale for shutting down the internet? This is the voice of the people, and in a land where there is freedom of speech protected by the constitution, they would be guilty of violating the very document they are sworn to protect from, “all enemies, foreign and domestic”.
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posted on
01/31/2011 9:59:49 PM PST
by
TiaS
To: Southack
And don’t forget, out here in the wild west there’s always smoke signals.
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posted on
01/31/2011 10:01:52 PM PST
by
TiaS
To: Mechanicos
They ever shut the internet down and it will prove everything we’ve been saying about them to all but the most insane skeptics.
From there it’s GAME ON!
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posted on
01/31/2011 10:02:19 PM PST
by
Bullish
(Obama's obviously drunk at the wheel and should be taken off the road before he gets people killed)
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