Posted on 06/17/2013 1:11:21 PM PDT by fwdude
Whether this latest scandal gets "resolved" or not, the cat is out of the bag - NONE of our private information is private. And with increasingly intricate and advanced technologies emerging, we can only expect the situation to get much, MUCH worse. They just won't tell us the next time, and simply "disappear" anyone who quits his classified government job.
I've always suspected that we would eventually have to again embrace low-tech methods of communication to combat government fascism such as we're now seeing. Notes in archaic or obscure languages, codes and other unsuspected methods are going to, out of necessity, come back into use by true, constitutional Americans. It will be inefficient, but will give us good practice for when the entire networked infrastructure completely collapses.
LOL, nothing is higher than Gene Hackman tech. We should get Will Smith too. The NSA would be quaking in their boots.
Someone has already been working on it: Freenet
Freenet Project.
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BuckeyeTexan: As programmers, we control their software. As DBAs, we control their data. As systems administrators, we control their servers. They do nothing unless we allow it. They are deaf, dumb, and blind without us.We said that in August 2012 on a thread about gun confiscation.Robert Teesdale: And it only takes one of us to betray the entire intelligence apparatus from a technology standpoint.
Without inflating numbers, I will safely bet that there is more than one well-placed patriot in a useful position.
Do you think Snowden is the beginning of IT geeks drawing a line in the sand?
Duck eggs do take some getting used to... Just a bit stronger in taste, but not bad. If you are already used to fresh chicken eggs, you probably wouldn’t notice/care, but if you are only used to store-bought eggs, you most likely wouldn’t like them off the bat. But they do work wonderfully in cooking.
I like that one. I like Black Sabbath, but somehow I never heard that song before.
Have saved my old 56KB modem expressly for this purpose... just in case. Also have an old Alpha box and first generation AMD Sempron saved, with several disks, etc. Can run any of the old or current BSDs and/or Linux... just in case.
Right about now everyone is getting an anal exam.
Most people don’t know that!
Someone has already been working on it: Freenet
Freenet Project.
Wiki article.
What about stencils and ink?
I remember using those things. Smelled of ether and you always ended up with purple fingers.
A few days ago Black Sabbath released 2 videos of two songs on their soon to be released album (the first with Ozzie since 1978!)
The first is titled “God Is Dead?” a song inspired by the events of September 11th and radical Islam. The song does not imply that God is dead in fact the lyrics conclude that God is not dead.
And then there is this one... title: “End of the Beginning”
Black Sabbath is kicking off their tour this summer starting in Texas.
The HAM radio idea is a good one, but not just for avoiding surveillance but because the Internet is so fragile. It wouldn’t be difficult for either the government or determined, educated and dedicated terrorists (not too different really in some cases) to take out the Internet as it has several points where a kill-switch (either logical or destructive) could take it out.
As a society we’ve now put ALL of our eggs into the Internet basket, and we have no backup. Imagine if the Internet went down today hard and permanently what tomorrow would look like.
Loss of the Internet is one of the real-world scenarios for the SHTF collapse. And one of the worst long-term aspects of the no-Internet scenario is the loss of stored knowledge. Large numbers of people have gotten rid of their books and new ones aren’t being printed, at least not very many. Even libraries are concentrating on media other than printed books. Stored knowledge has shifted almost exclusively to giant warehouses filled with spinning hard drives. Should the drives cease to spin and/or we lose access to them, then there goes human civilization as we know it.
If you want to be the REAL king when the SHTF, rent a giant warehouse right now and fill it full of every kind of book imaginable, particularly medical books and basic technological books about how to weld, make steel, cement and bricks, how to farm and grow food, etc., etc.
I’ve eaten them. They are very rich and can be harder to digest, IMO. Probably better for cooking and baking than eating by themselves.
Books on low tech printing would be handy too.
Thanks for the links, I’m going to check them out now.
Did they give Ozzie some lines to fire his ass up? :)
Larger, richer and more flavorful than chicken eggs (though if you let your chickens scratch and eat bugs the eggs are already better than sucky store eggs). Probably better for baking than chicken eggs, but you really notice the difference eating them fried. Very good.
HAM sets are fine. If voice transmission, why not Dakota? It worked before, right?
Sending videos with ASL is another, since there are not that many paid interpreters, and how many hours will that tie up?
Using Pictish characters works, since there are variations in characters, and in longitudinal directions, which change meanings.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘stick men’ might work.
Galileo used to make his journal entries in reverse. Let’s have fun, and use any system that might be mentioned, with the old “plus-1, plus-2”, AND in reverse!
Protecting Your Privacy from Tools like RIOT and PRISM
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Protecting-Your-Privacy-from-Tools-like-RIOT-Software
Those were both sweet! I think I like the first one a little more. Still rocking the 8 minute tracks. No one does that anymore.
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