[Timesink]

This is just one more reason why more people should be getting ham radio licenses. If the nation's telephone systems go down, the hams will be the only ones able to communicate.

[milestogo]

Late last fall, Detective Chris Hsiung of the Mountain View, Calif., police department began investigating a suspicious pattern of surveillance against Silicon Valley computers. From the Middle East and South Asia, unknown browsers were exploring the digital systems used to manage Bay Area utilities and government offices. Hsiung, a specialist in high-technology crime, alerted the FBI's San Francisco computer intrusion squad.

Working with experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the FBI traced back trails of a broader reconnaissance. A forensic summary of the investigation, prepared in the Defense Department, said the bureau found "multiple casings of sites" nationwide. Routed through telecommunications switches in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Pakistan, the visitors studied emergency telephone systems, electrical generation and transmission, water storage and distribution, nuclear power plants and gas facilities. Uh-oh..

[SierraWasp]

"This is just one more reason why more people should be getting ham radio licenses"

I have mine, but I won't provide my call sign as it's too easy to learn too much about me through this Federal License! I admit I haven't read this article yet, but I'm just as concerned today with the deliberate destabilization coming from within by our own elected politicians.

I watched the markets struggle valiantly today after watching PBS's Frontline program last week describe how Senators Dodd, Lieberman and Tauzin led the successful effort to override bill clinton's veto of letting auditors double as business consultants! Nothing being learned by the 1929 crash and now we have WORLDCOM!!!

This article is right, but our own liberally appointed judges for life are destabilizing our culture this very day! This nation and it's history is being thrown away, by it's own people! The militant few within are forcing us to waste our resources and compound the instability and are determined to bring it all down like the twin towers.

Here in CA they are doing it at the State and local levels as well! From within!!!

We better get a grip, here before it all shakes apart soon!

[exnavy]

At my house we also have cellphones, two way radios and CB radios.

[RightWhale]

ham radio licenses

It could happen that hams will be needed again. Especially those who read code.

[Mark17]

This is just one more reason why more people should be getting ham radio licenses.

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