Here is some hope!
The solution is a grass-roots solution.
To counter central technology, we will use dispersed and independent
technology. If and when it becomes necessary or expedient, a community
WiFi network is entirely possible. Most people have routers which can
sustain a power input of one to three watts. This certainly is enough
power to reach several neighbors across the street. This can be done
with little more than a three-inch antenna or only a built-in
("invisible") antenna.
Check it out at your home. Look at how many personal networks are
available to you if only you had the password. Look at the WiFi settings
on your cell phone, tablet, notebook/laptop, or even your desktop.
Grass roots techies will rapidly inform the participants in these
networks how to improve WiFi reception and reach, using aftermarket
antennas or will even encourage the use of wires and other metal objects
as antennas to gain greater coverage in the same manner as cell towers.
These antennas can be used in much the same was as the old-fashioned TV
antennas, in fact some of the newer (free-to-air) long distance antennas
might even work if (properly) connected to a router. There are (sports)
stadium style WiFi antennas available on ebay that will give you awesome
coverage.
The point is that we can build our own WiFi networks and use them to
communicate and share information with each other. We can even share
cached web information and help and organize each other on a scale and
with security that was not possible during the last world war.
To interconnect communities, we will be able to use hill-top and
mountain-top repeater radios. Repeaters are small radio stations set up
and maintained by Radio Amateurs, aka Ham Radio Operators. These radios
can be used to connect distant WiFi networks. I highly recommend to
anyone who is even slightly interested or concerned that they get their
FCC Radio Amateur license. It will not only make you a more useful
citizen but should our rogue government become less benign, it will give
you the ability to work for the common man and insure our individual
freedoms.
There are a number of organizations which can help you to get a bonafide
Radio Amateur license. Education can cost as little as $35 (2016
prices) and the FCC license tests are given by vetted licensees who
volunteer to give their time to run the tests. I paid $100 to get the
education to pass the (currently) highest available FCC Radio Amateur
license in just a few months. The testers are free to charge what they
want within reason, but it is so important to them to grow the Ham
community that they usually only charge expenses which is a token
amount. I had to take three tests and the total test fees turned out to
be only $10. Just as an example.
I can only say that the Ham community has a great bunch of stand-up
persons. I am extremely grateful to all my Ham friends, some of whom I
knew as a boy and some of whom are still my friends. I encourage
everyone who has even a remote survival impulse to get at least a novice
FCC Radio Amateur license.
And I should also mention that Hams help in rescue operations during
local and national disasters. That was the original reason the the
government created the Ham licensing. There was a time during the
1920's that it was illegal for any to own or operate an ordinary radio.
On 08/29/2016 12:06 AM, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> It seems like pretty much everything in America started with the
> election of one Barack Hussain Obama in 2008.
>
> I guess the world will end when he steps down next January, eh?
>
> -David Schwartz
>
> On Aug 28, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Keith Smith
> <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
> The article states in part “Without the U.S. contract, Icann would
> seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep
> its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already
> proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them
> to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that
> the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an
> inter-governmental organization solution.””.
>
> This could be really bad.
>
> What is the solution?
>
> Keith
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