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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:49 PM Aug 2013

Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet. "When you run your own network, nobody can shut it

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Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet. "When you run your own network, nobody can shut it down."

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/greek-off-the-grid-internet-mesh/

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Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet. "When you run your own network, nobody can shut it (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 OP

"When you run your own network, nobody can shut it down" - sure they can. PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #1

Address that vector. Overcome. Obsolete the oppressor! Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #2

So they made a dial up BBS? Shivering Jemmy Aug 2013 #3

Mesh nets can be made with cell phones, etc. Something, anything, is a start. Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #4

Much of the core software is open source. Warren Stupidity Aug 2013 #5

Not really a technical problem limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #6

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. "When you run your own network, nobody can shut it down" - sure they can.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:57 PM

Aug 2013

The government just has to seize some equipment.

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)

2. Address that vector. Overcome. Obsolete the oppressor!

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:59 PM

Aug 2013

Shivering Jemmy

(900 posts)

3. So they made a dial up BBS?

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 01:23 PM

Aug 2013

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)

4. Mesh nets can be made with cell phones, etc. Something, anything, is a start.

Reply to Shivering Jemmy (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 01:47 PM

Aug 2013

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

5. Much of the core software is open source.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 02:49 PM

Aug 2013

There is no technical problem to building a separate internet.

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)

6. Not really a technical problem

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 10:01 AM

Aug 2013

There might be a bit of an infrastructure problem since all the intercity cables are owned by telecoms and/or governments.

I wonder if anybody has ever tried sending internet packets over short wave radio, or like HAM radio.

It would probably be good if we could keep data communications up in case the internet ever gets shut down because of an emergency.

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