Posted on 08/21/2013 8:50:45 PM PDT by Errant
The Internet, and many forms of online commerce and communication that depend on it, may be on the brink of a "cryptopalypse" resulting from the collapse of decades-old methods of shared encryption.
The result would be "almost total failure of trust in the Internet," said four researchers who gave a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas earlier this month.
"We need to move to stronger cryptosystems that leverage more-difficult mathematical problems," the presenters said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Bless you if you can figure how to incorporate access to FR. Bet Jim has some old BBS code on floppy discs somewhere! lol
argh
without using the internet I meant
Local BBS services and local FReepers with HAM equipment to upload data packets for those without the equipment to be able to access.
As an emergency back-up if/when the internet goes down or the “kill switch” from the tyrants in DC goes down. This is obviously not a total SHTF scenario but it is a variant of it.
Need a way to sync the data. Some type of P2P networking with distributed data capabilities later - initially, maybe just mirror everything. Wouldn’t require much storage space.
lol. It’s just an idea I had floating around in my head, all of the technology actually exists if we want to use it.
He who beats Diffie-Hellman beats the world! (Well, except for cheaters who use man-in-the-middle attacks)
Keep thinking about it. Your idea certainly has possibilities! It would be nice to have something up and running ahead of a SHTF emergency. Maybe even broadcast the latest news of the day over any number of stations who do so over shortwave. TruNews.com is one that comes to mind, and Rick Wiles (the owner) was just donated a 50K transmitter on some island in the Caribbean.
Oops, make that a 50,000 Watt transmitter.
Who does a FReeper HAM ping list??
Is there one??
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The FReeper HAMs in each local market could also send packets back and forth at set times so that we can know what each other are saying. Not just a one way communication that way, and those without HAM could be assured that some things they posted on the local BBS would be available (eventually) to FReepers in other markets.
Might even have to hop data packets from one market to the next. lol
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All the technology exists I think, how to make it as secure as possible and implement a P2P system is a bit advanced. I think a mirror of each local system would be a good idea too.
There are websites that sell old laptops (the kind with modems and 40GB hdd’s) for a hundred bucks or so. Wipe the HDD, install a Linux.. our version of “Underground” Linux I suppose.
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Of course every FReeper prepper should be involved in this, even if they are just using the old software (a live disc) to access the BBS that gets set up. There could be one day every few months where we pull out our livedisc/bootdrive or old laptop in the closet and access the local BBS to see what the local FReeper HAM has put up.
Then they can login to FR and say if they got it or not.
For most participants it will just be the ability to call into the BBS. It would likely cost nothing but a blank CD for many of those.
How many FReepers are using HAM radios?
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I think this would be a great Free Republic project!
I hope people with homes around stick it to them good, they didn't need that misery in their lives of having to pull up stakes and start again.
Yep, they’re getting worried about that possibility for sure.
We also have to be prepared to go without the big out of country SW station, although being able to receive outside news and stuff would be great.
Just the HAMs being able to contact and communicate the data packets to each other and to upload them to local BBS’s would be a big step and the most important part of the process.
The local BBS could just be an older laptop plugged into some phone-line, right? Wouldn’t even need to plugged in except for test days until its needed.
Like I said for most FReepers it wouldn’t cost anything more than burning a blank CD. Assuming they had a modem, if not they can buy a really old computer just for the FRecs and keep it up in a closet somewhere until test day.
We could have a FRecs test every 3 or 4 months. Just an inconvenience for those who need to actually sacrifice their land line phone for a day.
It’s those with HAM equipment learning to send data packets to each other and knowing which FReeper HAMs to trust that would really be the pivotal part of the system.
In other words, the NSA spying is going to get worse.
The article says people would lose faith in the internet? I don’t have any faith in it now.
Equipment sounds ok for starters. Private packet deliveries via public/private key encryption between groups would be priceless as well as being able to receiving the latest happenings from FR Central.
and that TrueNews thing, thanks
Well yes, the Spying is going to get worse, but worse still is the possibility that current encryption algorithms may be on the verge of being compromised. That will mean that practically all internet traffic will be able to be intercepted and unencrypted by anyone with decent hacking skills.
LOL! Love it!!
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