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Right now I'm listening to a report on NPR about how India, the world's largest democracy, leads the world in the number of times it has shut down Internet acce
by eplanit 6y ago
Right now I'm listening to a report on NPR about how India, the world's largest democracy, leads the world in the number of times it has shut down Internet access.
As this will inevitably (sadly) become the norm, I fully expect we'll see the same in the U.S. in relatively short time. Hopefully that's too pessimistic; but, to be prepared -- what is the state of the art of HAM-based networking in the U.S.?
- JohnCurran 6y agoWhat leads you to believe the USA has any interest, now or in the future, in shutting down Twitter?
- tw600040 6y agoIt need not shut down twitter, when twitter itself will shut down accounts 'the USA' doesn't like..
- MrRadar 6y agoKeep in mind that amateur radio operators are banned from using encryption* on the air which means no HTTPS/TLS, SSH/SFTP, VPNs, or Tor. You'd basically be operating with the privacy of the Internet circa 1995. Almost all commercial activities are also banned. * Authentication is allowed but the contents of the messages cannot be concealed.
- eplanit 6y agoBut if the extreme measure of cutting people off at the ISP level were to occur (heaven forbid), wouldn't such rules be broken in the name of civil disobedience? I'm curious about what's technically feasible. Do "preppers" have a plan for such an event?
- MrRadar 6y agoHams are pretty uptight about self-policing what goes on in their RF spectrum, mostly because they realize that if they don't a) other people will step in and police it for them and b) it would make it much easier for commercial interests to make the case for their spectrum allocations to be taken away (they're recently losing this fight in the 3.3-3.5 GHz band to 5G cellular networks and increasingly high-frequency traders are eyeing their traditional shortwave allocations to shave those next few microseconds off compared to microwave networks). If you did start transmitting encrypted stuff on the ham bands someone would probably foxhunt you (even if you were doing it for "civil disobedience") and ask you politely to stop before reporting you to the FCC. You could of course work outside of the ham bands but then what you're doing would be illegal for other reasons.
- adictator 6y agoNPR is one of the most anti-India media houses in the world. Please refer to something more credible if you want to understand the truth about India.