Posted on 01/16/2021 5:09:19 AM PST by shoff
Interestingly this was published on Movements.org website in 2011. It was part of Hillary’s State Department training given in Mexico City. This conference sponsored by Hillary’s State Department and Google. Training was provided to youth activists in the use of social media. Special classes were held in the use of software designed to evade government surveillance. This software is called TOR, funded thru Google, US Naval Research lab and George Soros’s Human Rights Watch. This is the same software WikiLeaks uses and is illegal in the United States per the Patriot act. This was archived since it has been scrubbed from Movements.org website.
How to Remain Connected If Your Internet Gets Shut Off
Posted by Susannah Vila in Access Blocked Information originally posted on January 31, 2011
Burma, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Tajikistan, and - most recently - Egypt and Libya, are all countries where governments have controlled access to communication technologies as a way to hinder social mobilization during periods of political unrest. If you live in a country where this is a possibility, consider preparing for it. Share
Step 1. Keep all your outmoded technology - it may come in handy. If you live in a country likely to experience shut down of internet service providers at the behest of the government, keep in mind that tools like modems and even fax machines might be useful again. You can use a modem to access the web via dial-up provided you have a working telephone line. As in Egypt during the January 25 uprising, supporters can make available international numbers that you can dial into to avoid your local ISPs (since they will be shut down). You'll also need an international dial in number, a working phone line, and bluetooth equipped cell phone and computer. Stay tuned to the Telecomix activists' network, which began providing disconnected people with dial up links to the WWW when Egypt lost its connection, and again in Libya a month later. • Click here to see the Google Speak 2 Tweet number for Libya • Click here to see one free dialup number for Libya (note the username and password (they're the same)) • Click here to see another free dialup number for Libya (note the username and password (they're the same)) Share widely!
Step 2. Take all your contacts out of the cloud. It's a good idea to make sure you have a list of your contacts' emails printed out and readily available. For example, the We Are All Khaled Said Facebook page prepared for a possible Facebook cut-off in Egypt by asking supporters to share their email addresses and other contact information on a Google spreadsheet. Most email clients let you easily export and download your contacts. Learn how to export Gmail contacts and Yahoo! Mail contacts.
Step 3. Gather contacts' phone numbers and write them down. Make sure to have a phone tree prepared ahead of time. A phone tree is "a prearranged, pyramid-shaped system for activating a group of people by telephone." Your contacts are divided into different groups with each group having a coordinator. These coordinators will be responsible for calling other members. Start with those in your network with the biggest reach, for example community leaders such as politicians, imams, priests or rabbis, and then contact supporters with smaller networks but who you can count on to take to the streets and contact others
Step 4. CB Radio and ham radios can be used to communicate. A CB ("citizens band") two-way radio service allows for communication over short distances. You don't need a license to operate one. Ham radios--or amateur radios--are non-commercial and use designated radio bands to transmit communications. They are commonly used for voice transmissions and morse code. The requirements for receiving an amateur radio license vary country to country, so you will need to check what type of license you need to obtain. Ham radio signals are harder for governments to track and block. Learn more about becoming a ham radio operator with Wired's how-to wiki. There is an active ham radio community that you can tap into right now and work with to develop a contingency plan for getting information out of your country in the event of a net shut down.
Step 5. Use a fax machine to send and receive documents. Many printers now also come with fax machines built in, or you can use a standalone machine. Both parties need working phone lines and fax machines.
Step 6. Prepare a local or "ad hoc" network connecting devices to each other even without the internet. Here are different ways to do this: Turn to FidoNet, a networking system that can be used for communication between bulletin board systems. Mail and files can be exchanged via modems using a proprietary protocol. You must meet the technical requirements to join FidoNet. Check out Daihinia, an app that extends the range of a network of devices that aren't connected to the larger internet but are connected to each other. Adding a chat client, like Pidgin, to this allows activists to talk to one another. Look into how you might be able to harness other chat clients as well. On a Mac you can use the "Rendezvous" feature in iChat to communicate with anyone on the network. In Windows use a third party app like Trillian, and Linux has a bunch of 3rd party apps you can use - note that this does require some technical knowledge, which is why it is all the more important to prepare in advance. Packet radio is a radio communications protocol that lets you create long distance wireless networks between devices like ham radios - if you look into this option before hand, you might be able to create a network using radios. Get involved with OPENMESH, a new project launched by investor Shervin Pishevar. So far, the forum is working as a place for engineers to offer solutions for building a mesh network in Egypt.
Step 7. Get Twitter messages redirected to your phone and send Tweets by text. Make sure to link your mobile phone to your Twitter account and locate the Twitter short code for your country. Then you can send a text message containing your Tweet to that short code and it will be posted to your profile.
Step 8. Have a basic radio on hand so that you can still listen to news. Portable scanners are also helpful for receiving police, fire, and rescue reports. They can be purchased online or at specialty electronics stores and usually cost around $100 USD. Walkie-talkies are handheld, two-way portable radios that can be used to communicate between two people within a short distance (usually at a range around 15-20 miles). A basic walkie-talkie is pretty cheap to purchase.
Step 9. Check with neighbors and friends who may use different internet service providers (ISPs) and see if their connections are still up. For example, in Egypt one ISP (Noor) remained online when all other ISPs cut service.
Step 10. Did all this, but still no connection? Landlines might still work. If they do, as we've seen in Egypt and Libya during the spring of 2010, an activist network like Telecomix may be providing dial up links to the global web What are we missing? Let us know in the comments and we'll add them! Share Share Your Lessons Learned and Suggestions! blog comments powered by Disqus
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I’ll be to busy planting the turnip patch to worry about it.
I just hope that the guvmint uses the same ROE on us that they use in every other country we’ve been ‘involved in’ over the last 50 years.
Get to know your neighbors, figure out who can be trusted, learn basic life skills and be prepared for the time when electricity, water and gas are rationed or cut off entirely.
Bkmrk
A license is needed for VHF except marine.
Unless you know how to run a ham radio...go luck hearing anything.
A license is needed for VHF except marine.
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Yeah that’s what I was referring to - marine use
btt
The amateur packet radio system isn’t flashy, but with a node in a high location you can communicate over a 60 mile radius. Packet is similar to the old bulletin boards with messaging.
If you don’t have a license, it’s illegal and risky. The FCC has mobile units and monitoring stations that can find you.
Amateur radio is excellent for emergency communications but is a licensed service. When WWII started, the government ordered all operators off the air and it stayed that way until 1945. They can do so again.
One more thing - learn how to turn your phone into a hot spot. (iphones can do this, not sure about android) That way you can use your mobile phone to feed internet access to your laptop.
Watch the movie “The Postman”
PDF copy with pics; https://tavaana.org/sites/default/files/how_to_remain_connected.pdf
I copied a half a paragraph and used the search engine and this came in at the top of the list.
The BNA will be played at/sung at Biden’s inauguration IMHO
They’re not still everywhere?
We have landline phone and internet(dsl) and the lines are all buried. They even bury fiber optic for future use but the phone guy laughed when I asked him how soon we’d have fiber optic internet so I probably won’t see it in my lifetime.
When we get storms that knock down trees that fall on electric lines, we still have phone and internet or at least we did. I need to get a new set of batteries for the battery bank. We didn’t get electric until three years after moving on to the property but had phone and internet the first year. Electric required clearing an easement but since phone/dsl get’s buried, it didn’t. We had a few solar panels and the battery bank and an inverter that ran the dsl modem/router and a cordless phone. Also LED lighting, TV with streaming and a 12vdc chest freezer/fridge. We wouldn’t know the electric was out unless I neighbor told us. It was kinda nice really.
I don’t know if the phone company has a backup generator but I would think so. They’re probably at the top of the list for electric co repair priority, just below hospitals. Of course if some huge transformer(s) that runs half the State goes out ... The ones that take months to make and are not kept in stock.
Thanx for sharing. I saved it and will review later. It is important that we keep all avenues open incase there is a Internet Lockdown. And it can happen.
uhmm. There's already a Ham network and has been for decades and it's worldwide. dumbass politicians.
Half my family has opted to only go with cell phones. Most people have gone with just the cells. They can get landlines, but choose not to.
Its reverse engineering for libs. This tells them what to shut down to conservatives first and then go after these things listed.
bkmk
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