It seems to me like now would be a good time to be building resilient networks for communications.
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It seems to me like now would be a good time to be building resilient networks for communications. By resilient, I mean no phones and no internet (unless it's a secure community mesh network).
Sure, there are tools like Signal, but only until the fascists turn the internet off. This is a highly effective technique that autocratic governments don't hesitate to put to use. For examples, just take a look at @netblocks.
Everybody should have at least five people they know and trust that they can quickly reach in person to pass messages along to. Find good places to hide those SD cards and use them for larger transfers.
Build the infrastructure of resistance while it's still possible.
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It seems to me like now would be a good time to be building resilient networks for communications. By resilient, I mean no phones and no internet (unless it's a secure community mesh network).
Sure, there are tools like Signal, but only until the fascists turn the internet off. This is a highly effective technique that autocratic governments don't hesitate to put to use. For examples, just take a look at @netblocks.
Everybody should have at least five people they know and trust that they can quickly reach in person to pass messages along to. Find good places to hide those SD cards and use them for larger transfers.
Build the infrastructure of resistance while it's still possible.
@alan I think about this more often than I want to. I live in a very rural area. On the one hand, we have access to food that either we or our neighbors grow. I do have a network of trusted friends here that I could reach in person. But on the other, I'm not sure how that network expands enough out of our geographic area to really be of use.
No internet would make an already isolated community only moreso.
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@alan I think about this more often than I want to. I live in a very rural area. On the one hand, we have access to food that either we or our neighbors grow. I do have a network of trusted friends here that I could reach in person. But on the other, I'm not sure how that network expands enough out of our geographic area to really be of use.
No internet would make an already isolated community only moreso.
@LJ Perhaps unsurprisingly, these things work well in cells and "short hops" all you have to do is get word to someone a mile or two down the road who you know will get word to someone else another mile or two down the road. There are some other resilient technologies like walkie talkies and code-words, or spread spectrum radios that should offer dome level of security. Hell we can go back to waving coded flags.
