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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: Weisshaupt on August 23, 2011, 10:54:10 AM

Title: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Weisshaupt on August 23, 2011, 10:54:10 AM

At least in metro areas it will be damn near impossible to shut down internet traffic.  The myriad of wireless routers and other devices running software like this  (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/126664/)make it near impossible to cut off communication, though it might be a lot slower.  Then it only takes a few people with the know how to establish links to other locations.. like dialup services in France. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/02/using-fax-machines-to-route-ar.php) And with the right stuff, this sort of  communication is virtually untraceable. (http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26981/?p1=A3&a=f)

IP networks were designed to be fault tolerant in the event of a nuclear attack. I still laugh when morons in the government think this is still something that can be controlled in any meaningful sense.  I suppose they could jam the spectrum used by most routers/laptops, but even then I would suspect they can't do it for an entire city, and the signal will just route the long way around.

You can't stop the signal Mal.


 

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Pandora on August 23, 2011, 10:58:22 AM

"Serenity" fan, areya?

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Weisshaupt on August 23, 2011, 11:18:27 AM

Quote from: Pandora on August 23, 2011, 10:58:22 AM

"Serenity" fan, areya?

Aren't we all?

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Pandora on August 23, 2011, 11:21:57 AM

Astonishingly (to me), no.

I'm trying in vain to remember a description of the internet that I read not that long ago; something about, I think, the internet is itself a giant work-around, intrinsically so.

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Libertas on August 23, 2011, 11:34:38 AM

SkyNet lives.

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Weisshaupt on August 28, 2011, 11:11:24 PM

And then there is this.
http://thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/8719-technology-keeping-internet-freedom-ahead-of-censorship (http://thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/8719-technology-keeping-internet-freedom-ahead-of-censorship)

Title: Re: Shut down the Internet? go ahead and try
Post by: Libertas on August 29, 2011, 07:07:29 AM

The Genie is out and there isn't a big enough strong enough bottle to capture him...