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Is it Time for All Good Americans to go Low Tech Once Again?
Self | 06/17/13 | fwdude

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: nsa; surveillance; vanity
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To: longtermmemmory

LOL, nothing is higher than Gene Hackman tech. We should get Will Smith too. The NSA would be quaking in their boots.


101 posted on 06/17/2013 2:32:28 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GeronL
If someone were to find a way to use the internet truly anonymously, it’d be nice. Probably be banned immediately though.

Someone has already been working on it: Freenet

Freenet Project.

Wiki article.a href=

102 posted on 06/17/2013 2:34:25 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

bump


103 posted on 06/17/2013 2:36:08 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Robert Teesdale; CodeToad; Noumenon; djf
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.

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.

We said that in August 2012 on a thread about gun confiscation.

Do you think Snowden is the beginning of IT geeks drawing a line in the sand?

104 posted on 06/17/2013 2:37:05 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Ditter

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.


105 posted on 06/17/2013 2:37:53 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: tsowellfan

I like that one. I like Black Sabbath, but somehow I never heard that song before.


106 posted on 06/17/2013 2:39:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Boogieman
Well, I suppose I can drag out an old x86 computer and 56k modem and set up a FR BBS secure from the NSA’s prying eyes.

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.

107 posted on 06/17/2013 2:42:59 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Right about now everyone is getting an anal exam.


108 posted on 06/17/2013 2:43:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Most people don’t know that!


109 posted on 06/17/2013 2:46:49 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: LaRueLaDue
One more try on the correct HTML....

Someone has already been working on it: Freenet

Freenet Project.

Wiki article.

110 posted on 06/17/2013 2:49:59 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Buckeye McFrog

What about stencils and ink?

I remember using those things. Smelled of ether and you always ended up with purple fingers.


111 posted on 06/17/2013 3:00:56 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: EEGator

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.

http://youtu.be/OhhOU5FUPBE

And then there is this one... title: “End of the Beginning”

http://youtu.be/o0W91FrTlYk

Black Sabbath is kicking off their tour this summer starting in Texas.


112 posted on 06/17/2013 3:02:25 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: fwdude

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.


113 posted on 06/17/2013 3:03:19 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Ditter

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.


114 posted on 06/17/2013 3:04:31 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: catnipman

Books on low tech printing would be handy too.


115 posted on 06/17/2013 3:05:21 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: tsowellfan

Thanks for the links, I’m going to check them out now.

Did they give Ozzie some lines to fire his ass up? :)


116 posted on 06/17/2013 3:07:26 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I’ve never ate a duck egg. Is there a lot of difference? I know they are bigger. Gramma used to use them for baking.

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.

117 posted on 06/17/2013 3:07:36 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: fwdude

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!


118 posted on 06/17/2013 3:19:21 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: fwdude

Protecting Your Privacy from Tools like RIOT and PRISM
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Protecting-Your-Privacy-from-Tools-like-RIOT-Software


119 posted on 06/17/2013 3:24:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tsowellfan

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.


120 posted on 06/17/2013 3:26:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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