Contingency Plan if www goes down. Our own private web

Originally Posted by ucan

@Baggywrinkle - I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows of these...

The only thing on Eye's post I have no actual experience of (yet) is "Satellite communications and hardware"

We still have some time to work out the options... Count me in, I can re-build the whole internet if necessary I have been working on a comm server method/code for my website, but thinking about it I could easily add a fidonet style distribution and mirror this site in freenet etc. - even a bittorret patchfile site update distribution is an option, there are loads of things we can do - I have a lot of code already written, it would be a matter of testing and creating a network of access points for dial-ups in different countries. I had some communication with the admin of this site before Christmas, but I'm waiting to hear back from them - there are cost/trust issues that need to be resolved before anything solid can be created, but then again - mirroring this site and adding it as a resource to a separate network maybe the best option as a centrally managed resource is basically a weakness...

I've mentioned this topic at least two other times previously. But it fell on deaf ears.

I had freenet installed on my computer for a while. It is unwieldy and slow. But fidonet is another story.

I cut my teeth in BBS land back in the early eighties. The old Paranet network was my lifeline for information.
I'd call a node on the other side of the country to access the daily packet and knew about Ed Dames, and the Inslaw Promis fiasco years before it went main stream

Forget satellite. Ham data packets will be where it's at.
This is strictly a pirate clandestine operation. You will be doing
an end run around the government nanny net. It will not
be viewed kindly.

Combined with a security protocol such as PGP it would be very powerful.

The trick is getting folks to take it seriously and start NOW

Who among you has the brass and resolve to stand up to tyranny?

Freedom of speech and freedom of ideas is your most basic of human rights.

Without it you might as well kneel down and lick the boot.