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Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet
An anonymous reader points out a short article at The Economist, which says "Savvy techies are finding ways to circumvent politically motivated shutdowns of the internet. Various groups around the world are using creative means like multi-directional mobile phone antennae and even microwave ovens to transmit internet traffic accross international borders."
Ham radio saves the day again !
I'm still waiting for democracy to figure out that we need control over public space flight if we really want change. The enlightened can leave capitalists to their rock while we all disperse into infinity.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
This really depends on the country in question, but there are many way s to gain access to the Internet. If the country is connected to more free country by land, it should be possible to set up RONJA-devices for cross-border communication. (For more information about RONJA: http://ronja.twibright.com/ ). The devices might seem very conspicious but can be made to be less obvious. If using light outside the visible range, this might be a rather good alternative. Not easily blocked with radio-jamming neither.
One can further develop this with more links once inside the country - from location to location, without links that are easy to shut down without knowledge of their location available for the government.
Directional antennas for wireless devices is another alternative - but those are easier to jam with interference.
Now, it's a completely different ballpark if you don't have any friendly regimes close by. If you're an island nation (say cuba, australia, or others) - you might have to piggyback on existing communication links, and if the links themselves are completely severed - like they were in Egypt - it automatically gets more difficult. You'll need to piggyback on radio or satelite. I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.
Satelite, as pointed out in the article, is expensive. I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio. It should, however, be possible to get tweets out if you can find someone to type them in outside of the country. Not easy to upload stuff to youtube using this, though.
Other ideas?
"Rune Kristian Viken" - http://www.nwo.no - arca
Fuck da po-lice
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
do we really need rulers, or to be spied on & censored? history's dictators would say....
back to this post;
some of us could get along without that too. fear generation(al) is much
more disastrous than disasters whether/weather natural, or MANufactured.
it (fear) does generate even more FEAR, mammon, the need for EVEN MORE
'defense' (from ourselves/unidentifiable 'enemies'?) when stuff blows up,
goes under water etc.., so that's good?
everyone is ?afraid? to discuss (0 mention anywhere) all of us disarming
ourselves? curious? not really. considering....
fortunately we have an allknowingcaretakingexpandingoverseer.biz.gov to
help us sort out our unfoundead fears?
babys rule. the more the better. they know stuff too. that's so simple. so
simple as to extract the pee out of the nazi mutant eugenatics 'math',
which quite possibly helps the rulers' gregorian 'calender' (took almost 6
months to author), abstracting (an attempt) our time itself? is that whack
or what? ascared? how would we know (anything else?)?
so, we'll then expect to see you at any one of the million babys+ /us, beginning with disarmament?
play-dates, conscience arisings, georgia stone editing(s), & a host of
other life promoting/loving events. guaranteed to activate all of our
sense(s) at once. perhaps you have seen our list of pure intentions for
you
just kidding? not at all
GeorgiaStoneMasons, 'chosen ones', in cahoots? (Score:0) .5
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 18, @09:12AM (#35528686)
the GSM get their tiny (ie; selfish, stingy, eugenatic, fake math)
billion remaining population, & the money/weapons/vaccine/deception/fake
'weather' alchemist/genetically altered nazi mutant goon exchangers, get
us? yikes
the 'fog' is lifting? more chariots will be needed?
ALL (uninfactdead) MOMMYS......
the georgia stone remains uneditable? gad zooks. are there no chisels?
previous math discardead; 1+1 extrapolated (Score:-1) .5 billion, then
by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 14, @10:59PM (#35487476)
deepends on how you interpret it. georgia stone freemason 'math'; the
variables & totals are objective oriented; oranges: 1+1= not enough,
somebody's gotta die. people; 1+1=2, until you get to
1+1=2 too many, or, unless, & this is what always happens, they breed
uncontrolled, naturally (like monkeys), then, 1+1=could easily result in
millions of non-approved, hoardsplitting spawn. see the dilemma? can
'math', or man'kind' stand even one more League of Smelly Infants being
born?
there are alternative equations being proffered. the deities (god, allah,
yahweh, buddha, & all their supporting castes) state in their manuals that
we needn't trouble ourselves with thinning the population, or being so
afraid as to need to hoard stuff/steal everything. chosen people? chosen
for what? to live instead of us? in the case of life, more is always
better. unassailable perfect math. see you at the play-dates, georgia
stone editing(s) etc... babys rule.
exploding babys; corepirate nazis to be caged (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 13, @10:50PM (#35476142)
there are plans to put them, (the genetically, surgically & chemically
altered coreprate nazi mutant fear/death mongerers (aka47; eugenatics,
weapons peddlers, kings/minions, adrians, freemasons etc...)) on display
in glass cages, around the world, so that we can remember not to forget...
again, what can happen, based on greed/fear/ego stoking deception.
viewing/feeding will be rationed based on how many more of the creators'
innocents are damaged, or have to be brought home (& they DO have another
one) prematurely.
Fight back.
Rebel.
Gum-up the works.
And above all: Have a Supreme Law (constitution) that even the most powerful man must be obliged to obey, or else face criminal prosecution, and his acts shall be nullified.
Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
Any ideas where I can pick up a multi-directional antenna for my phone? The unidirectional antenna it came with is a huge pain.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Please correct this typo. You do not want people fiddling with microwave ovens and in the process getting first-degree burns and cancer. You are meant to say "Microwave LINKS"!
This is a start, but the tools are still firmly in geeks-only territory. Can't all us in the idealistic open-source community come up with new technologies? How about some program that lets mobile phones exchange data with people as they pass in the street, maintaining a shared high-latency store akin to Freenet? Or maybe some company would like to improve on the sat-internet antenna to make it even more strongly directional, thus making it harder to trace?
The last paragraph of the article describes a modified microwave oven.
Great !!
As soon as the DIY crowd gets wind of the microwave oven hack, it wont be safe to walk down the street without getting cooked.
it's correct actually
an American naval-intelligence analyst at a NATO cyberwar unit in Tallinn, Estonia, describes a curious microwave oven. Though still able to cook food, its microwaves (essentially, short radiowaves) are modulated to encode information as though it were a normal radio transmitter.
Someday we'll hit the human carrying capacity. And the band will just play on.
Point to point laser will also work in the right situation, and be almost impossible to detect.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
"we must focus on the horrific images of the damaged nuclear plants" (not ours). not the problem." the horrific images is what we 'must' focus on" (somehow felt like 'instead of'?). we got it, after about 17 repetitions? interesting accurate quotes. get out of town (on tv) & slam the nuke peddlers, all at once. could have been a little more subtle? they had a point, as the babys are now assimilating crude oil, with sometimes less than fatal results, so that's good? many of us are thinking they'll handle radiation much better as well, although that's not a good reason to crank it up, or down. from any other angle, we appear as willing hostages/suicidal. fortunately for us, babys rule
Who'd look twice at some pigeons?
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
... would do well to use this window of opportunity to develop as many different means of working around censorship as possible and to disseminate that information as widely as possible before they come for us. After all, how much of what Homeland Security et al does, really protects citizens from outside threats as opposed to protecting governments from their citizens ? V was prophetic.
Post some pictures to Flickr, facebook, or any other medium. Then post some with data embedded.
I'm curious to see how the microwave oven was modified. I imagine the modulation rate is poor due to a variety of factors, the primary one being that microwave oven magnetrons aren't designed to be switched on/off at high speeds and their centre frequency could be anywhere from 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz - mostly due to thermal instability and impedance load changes. Modulating the signal as opposed to switching the magnetron would likely work, possibly by splitting the signal into two waveguides and adjusting the phase of one to create destructive/constructive interference, or by using phase modulation on the waveguide.
Another method of phase control is using an external low power RF source allowing one to control the phase of the magnetron. That would require opening up the magnetron (which is under vacuum), not exposing yourself to the beryllium coating on the inside (highly carcinogenic), adding a loop internally, then somehow closing it and getting it back under vacuum. Sounds like a serious pain-in-the-ass.
The receiver would likely need to be custom as well, and making this a two way communications link without introducing ridiculous amounts of noise on the near-by receiver would be tough.
Maybe accepting a modulation rate of 2 kHz is acceptable to some people though.
I bet most of you idiots actually believe there is such a thing as "hate" speech too, don't you.
Don't worry, pretty soon you'll be able to experience "hate" for real, when the third world hoardes don't get what they came to your country for (a free ride, free welfare, health care, schooling, and white women), and start rioting. Grateful souls, aren't they.
"Racist" = "Heretic".
White people have the right to have their own countries.
Perhaps if you replaced the magnetron with a custom built klystron of similar size, it would work.
There are any number of "Extremely small" CRT devices you can get for pennies. (Like the eye-pieces of old VHS camcorders) These are basically a vacuum tube type electron gun, and which with some modifications, could be used to drive such a tiny klystron quite effectively.
[really blurry image I found on the internet depicting the tiny size of the CRT in question]
Amusingly, you could probably use the already existing magnetic deflection system of the CRT to help modulate the beam inside the klystron waveguide.
Obligatory wikipedia on Klystrons
Using one of those as the transmitter of your directional antenna would net you a VERY long distance connection.
802.11S is a game changer. Its sometimes called 'darknet' or a backhaul network, but it does get the job done, so long as you have people willing to maintain it. Two routers on either side of a border, can connect to one another. If you have one that is solar powered, near a border, then its self maintaining. All you need then is another router within a kilometer or so of that router. If someone then has an 802.11S router connected to their computer, plus the 'official' wired internet, and the outside world is on the 802.11S side, then everyone on the wired side is connected to the 802.11S side. I have a feeling 802.11S will never be officially sanctioned in a place like the United States, where the government has gone all draconian and 'post 9/11' and 'homeland security', and 'gitmo' and 'patriot act' all over everyone. Since 802.11S allows for preservation of civil liberties, the absolute control of corporations and the government over every aspect of peoples lives could come into question. The gover/corp would never allow it.
>Using one of those as the transmitter of your directional antenna would net you a VERY long distance connection.
But wouldn't it be just a one way connection?. For whatever effort it'll take to modulate a signal with a cooking tool, it'll be orders of magnitude more difficult to rig the same as a receiver sensitive enough to decode a strong but still poor quality signal. It is really too bad that the article itself offers this short tease without anything substantial for the curious to follow up on. Any googlers out there willing to track this down?
Stay sentient. Don't drink bad milk.
The beauty of a klystron is that it can serve as an amplifier. In the bunching section of the homebrew klystron, you insert a generic USB WiFi dongle. The signal from the dongle does the initial attenuation that causes the bunching in the klystron-- that is to say, it is the source of the reference signal.
The output cavity is then directed outward, away from the wifi dongle, and toward your target with a waveguide. The wifi dongle's reception ability should be mostly unaffected by this.
magies are frequently modulated by switching the cathode voltage on and off to produce pulses or by varying the current to cause an amplitude modulation or by varying the voltage produce an FM modulation. An other possibility is constructing a waveguide with a flash tube through it, when the flash tube fires, the waveguide shorts out and causes the power output to shift allowing for modulation of the RF output. Magnetrons is notoriously frequency unstable, this usually isn't a problem in radar where a portion of the output of the transmitter RF is fed into the receiver's magic T mixer for frequency tracking. Personally I'd stay with FM modulation, the infinite sidebands will mitigate a lot of the carrier frequency instability.
OBTW I was a missile guy not a radar guy, it was 30 years ago and certainly a long way from being a microwave engineer so anything I said may be full of shit.
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Can you extend a wifi network originating from a mobile device such as a mifi or iPhone (w/ iOS 4.3)?
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Good effort, but you're not evil enough.
Allow me to change about seven words from the draft bill floating around congress:
"Any unathorized viewing of any copyrighted item is a felony."
And since everything that exists has an instant copyright from the moment it was created, the first 1000 "country destroying IP-terrorists" made an example of will go way past chill - it will be cultural nuclear winter.
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