[Anonymous]

I’m not a techie either and certainly not a programmer or IT person of any sort. I was raised on Windows. I didn’t install my first Linux OS till I was in college. I just knew that I valued my privacy and I wasn’t going to have any with Windows installed. Most people stay with Windows/Mac because it’s what they are familiar with and don’t have the patience to learn something new. I supposed that’s where I deviate from the crowd of non-tech people.

[Anonymous]

Well, I basically use Windows because I’m a Boomer when it comes to tech, I even drive a car that has a carburetor; I never liked computers, I never trusted computers, so I never learned very much about computers, and I never bothered with Linux until Windows pulled that gay shit with the VPN. I assumed they were spying on everything that was done on these things back in the 90’s, and the technology is simply advanced enough now that they can do it in more ways, store more of it, have AI apply logical inferences and connect dots, etc. I don’t own a smartphone, I don’t use Social Media, and I assume they’re just as aware of my thoughts, movements, and actions as anyone else.

“You might need a covid pass to travel outside your house; let alone between cities or states.” I’m not asking anyone’s permission. I don’t live in Australia or China, and if/when they try that here, let’s just say there will be troubles. Not from me, of course! I, for one, welcome our new Sino-Semitic Overlords! This is certainly not a scenario my family and friends have been quietly preparing for ever since the Branch Davidians were immolated, and this was all totally unexpected.
“…live in the most rural areas you can find where their control is the least enforceable and most easily foiled.” Already done.

I assume that five years from now, there will be no internet the way we know it now, and only slaves will be using computers of any kind for any purpose, and they won’t be allowed to NOT use them. Me? I’m gonna party like it’s 1899.

[Anonymous]

I got locked out of my windows computer

One piece of solid advice I can give you is stop using Windows! If you really need to use Windows, like for work, then get yourself a dedicated Windows laptop as soon as possible. Not only is it insecure, but it’s glorified spyware. Everything you do is recorded in some way. Your VPN is worthless so long as you’re using Windows. Also, Apple isn’t any better. In fact, it’s arguably worse.

My suggestion is switch to a Linux OS as soon as possible. Any of them, even Ubuntu, are leagues better for your privacy if that’s what you’re concerned with. And as far as actually surfing the Internet as anonymously as possible, nothing beats using Tor via a Whonix VM.

All that being said, your VPN shouldn’t remain active after powerdown unless you’ve explicitly told it to activate upon startup.

[Anonymous]

The OP assumes that at some point down the road, mainstream electronic communication channels will be impossible for dissidents to openly correspond due to corporate-government censorship. In such a scenario, I would reckon it’s not too far a stretch to say that transportation systems would also be heavily monitored and restricted. You might need a covid pass to travel outside your house; let alone between cities or states. If that’s the case, the best hope for unhindered and unfiltered communication would be to live in the most rural areas you can find where their control is the least enforceable and most easily foiled. If you live in the urban or suburban areas, you are reduced to communicating in code, even while face-to-face; and even then that system can only be employed if such people have met beforehand out of corporate-government eyes and have arranged to to meet in such ways. At that point, you’d have more privacy joining an organized crime family. Heck, you might even need to become a criminal just to leave the country.

In all honesty though, I doubt it’s ever going to get to the point where the elite class have complete and total control where nothing escapes their notice. No matter how much power they may have, they are not gods and are quite fallible. There is an underground to every society that specializes in skirting the hand of the law, even totalitarian ones. It’s just that those places aren’t very pleasant. If a dystopia as complete as the OP describes ever were to come about, would the gulag be that much worse? I’d rather die a free man, then live as a slave.

[WhiteMan]

This is what the US military is planning on using when the satellites go down and internet backbone cables are cut.

Using Visible Light in Data Transmission

In the discussion of light, this usually means the entire electromagnetic spectrum, which comprises everything from gamma rays to radio waves. Only a small portion of the entire electromagnetic spectrum can be seen by the human eye, which is aptly called visible light.

One can essentially build a visible light internet network with up to 16 users. Now that network would have to link across regions, etc.
https://lifi.co/visible-light-communication/
https://lifi.co/lifi-products/lifimax/

[Anonymous]

That’s an interesting idea, but one that likely requires a great deal of intimacy, as well as high-level maths… One thing I learned from the Gulag Archipelago, which was mentioned again in “Gulag” by Anne (((Applebaum))), was that the Gulag system had the unintended consequence of taking dissidents from all over the USSR, who otherwise would have never had any knowledge of each other’s existence, and mixed them all together in the same place for years. They got to learn from each other as far as tactics, unfiltered information about the political terrain in other countries (which they could never visit because of the Soviet internal passport system they’re trying to launch globally), and develop methods of communication with other dissident groups, such as codes that would have been shared by former Gulag-mates which would be unknown to all others. All of them having been subject to the system also meant they could be trusted, since they’d already proven they were willing to lose everything to bring down the system.

I’ve never been super-interested in radios because it’s something they can track (easily) and something they can block (just as easily) if they’re so-inclined. This was developed to a high-art in WWII, with naval vessels actually targeting enemy ships at night via their radio signals; hence, ‘radio silence’. I figure they’ll just takeover the existing wavelengths and use them for digital data if they decide CB and HAM enthusiasts are too much of an annoyance.

Digital data transfer by light, as in Li-Fi, is an interesting technology, and it would be entirely EM-proof, as long as you had line-of-sight, and kept your receiver in a Faraday cage. I read about that years ago, but I had not considered that.

I was thinking more low-tech ideas, like smoke signals, signal mirrors, signal lights, flares, pigeons, horns, drums, etc. Most of us who have anyone we want to keep informed will be people within a dozen miles or so. As long as the mail service is operational, I was thinking that hand-written letters with a sheet of aluminum foil inside the envelope (to prevent them from being scanned), and tamper-proof envelopes (which used to be common, but now are specialty items) which give evidence of having been steamed open would be useful when the internet is taken down. If thousands of people started doing that, it’d become very difficult to read every letter (most of which would be innocuous).

[WhiteMan]

Well in the USSR Gulag camps, Ratushinskaya would write her poems in miniature and in math code. Her husband could decipher them because he knew of her math specialty. Pencil, pen, nails, on paper. I’ve seen the gov’t saw down HAM towers back in the 1990’s. The US National Guard is set up to use visible light signaling. Transmitting by light. The F-22 fighter jet, behind the cockpit has three visible light lenses to transmit under radio silence or thick electromagnetic warfare. It’s sort of clear that in the heavy electromagnetic jamming of a civil war, that visible light signaling (hooked up to a computer) is their ultimate fallback. Visible light communication systems are available to buy commercially.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can maintain or make initial contact with dissenting voices after ((((the Technocrats))) create a Cyber-Pandemic, and force everyone to use a global ID/Vax Passport to log onto any device which can access the internet (even if they do not use the internet)? Any ideas? HAM Radios, CB Radios, Carrier Pigeons, Mailing lists, IRL meetup groups, smoke signals, phone chains, other? We should all be fully aware by now that pretty much everything you’ve done on a computer over the past 15-20 years is stored in some database somewhere that the authorities of your country’s government have access to for any reason which amuses them; I fully expect all of us to be permanently banned from the internet within the next five years for wrong-think (yes, even YOU). Ideas?

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