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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Androids can be hotspots - - we use ours often, especially when traveling.
Use mobile phone to feed internet ... if there’s a comms blackout, won’t cellular AND internet be unavailable?
Cool. I’ll print it out to have a hard copy on hand.
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Possibly but I think the big providers will go down if anything happens. That would cover most people. Most people use wireless I think. The internet would not go down. Countries that control the internet can take it down and they have at times. But our government does not control the internet so providers would be the target. Either way to me it is worth a try. My adapter should be here tomorrow.
as a way to hinder social mobilization during periods of political unrest.
COVID, government, its flying monkeys the cops and the courts cooperate to "hinder social mobilization."
Government create social unrest as a means to consolidate power.
Don't give them the unrest. Don't give them cooperation. Don't give them your respect, admiration, or otherwise accept their lie that they are tools of justice. They are not. Go about your business peacefully. Submit when arrested.
I didn't know that, but it makes sense.
Back then the globalists had managed to trigger Japan and Germany into empire ambition, and both those countries were busy spreading democracy, their style.
China will be used this time around.
The constitution of the Constitution of the People's republic of China is very strong on protecting human rights.
"the Chinese people took state power into their own hands and became masters of the country." - right there in the preamble.
“But our government does not control the internet so providers would be the target.”
That’s good to know. Still ... when did the incoming government respect and observe what the government can and can’t control? They’ll do what they damn well please, anyhow.
I just figure that in the end we’ll keep plugging along and doing the best we can with what we have.
I’ll betcha that landline is connected to the ‘net; somehow; on the OTHER end of it!
bingo
Without GPS you can be fairly located by using cell tower distance.data.
With three direction finding radios a transmitter can be located as well.
FoX HUNT!
Actually; it did.
Just not the 110 stuff you have in your house.
The phone substation supplied the power to run your old phone. It comes in with the phone line.
The pair of wires from the central office switch to a subscriber's home is called a subscriber loop.
It carries a direct current (DC) voltage at a nominal voltage of -48V when the receiver is on-hook,
supplied by a power conversion system in the central office.
This power conversion system is backed up with a bank of batteries,
resulting in continuation of service during interruption of power to the customer supplied by their electrical utility.
The maximum resistance of the loop is 1,700 ohms, which translates into a maximum loop length of 18,000 feet or 5 km using standard 24-gauge wire. (Longer loops are often constructed with larger, lower resistance 19-gauge wire and/or specialized central office equipment called a loop extender. They may be 50,000 ft. or more.)
OK.
But I could use the landline in power outages before fiber optic cable.
Now I can’t use the landline in power outages with fiber optic cable.
That’s all I was saying.
Not mine.
I have a battery backed up piece of equipment from the phone company.
Before we got fiber, my old landline phiones quit working when the house power went out because we had replaced ALL of our old POTS (Western Electric) rotary dial phones with new, wireless handset ones.
The handsets had a battery (natch) but the main units did not.
I finally scrounged around for and old rotary just for backup.
This was well before we got cell phones.
Oh...
I also bought a large enough generator to power the essential things in the house: furnace blower, refrig and lighting.
Once when the power was out; I had disconnect items unneeded at the time; one of which was the sump pump in the basement.
After power came back; I plugged everything back in; so I thought.
Later; as we then got torrential downpours that flooded the yard during the night, I awoke to about 3” of water downstairs.
Now I do NOT unplug the sump pump!
Thank you! It might be TMI, but I’ll take it happily!
Can’t let a crisis go to waste. Especially when it can be used to increase power.
wish I had networking and tech skills.
most people have several spare phones at this point.
They are really just radios transmitting packets of data. The middle man is more likely due to regulation than technical ability.
Perhaps Trump could fire off a last minute EO freeing the frequencies for us.
Of course, in a post-whatever situation permission would be the least of our worries.
Imagine several possible benefits:
Non-dependence on towers means less ability to shut off comms?
Work around if the internet goes or is shut down?
Actively suppressing all frequencies would hurt comms of adversaries.
Anonymity built in to a peer to peer or onion network?
No central ability to monitor every bit of communication as now?
Sounds dangerous to some - sounds like freedom to me.
added benefit of removing revenue from the technoligarchy if we use our equipment independent of theirs?
I have asked a couple of people about this before, but not gotten any traction. You might actually know people who could address this.
Now that we see that a leader of a nation can be kicked off a “private” platform, that the app gatekeepers will remove apps that allow speech, that storage providers (AWS) will remove hosting for those who try to get around the lack of apps, and payment companies will prevent blacklisted companies from receiving revenue to operate, it may be time to find a solution that will remove them all from the equation. Without comms the other defenses will amount to little or nothing.
Survival, for us, for liberty in the future, will require that people be able to communicate freely and not have all our thoughts and actions proscibed by the information gatekeepers
Last June. I drove through Johnson Valley to Hwy 10, through Arizona, New Mexico, to El Paso for the night. The next day I drove through to Junction, on to Hwy 29, to Georgetown, to my final destination. It was a nightmare of a move. I almost ran into a deer. I would not do it again.
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