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Can goberments turn off the internet of their citizens as they want?
| Supposedly Obama had such a killswitch installed for the US. It's supposed to shutdown the internet nationwide or something. Not sure if that's just connections leaving the country or connections period.
| Governments did it in the Arab Spring, but it wasn't perfect, some people were still able to communicate. I'd guess China can do it effectively and the US somewhat effectively.
| >Not accessing the darkweb when such things occur
| There are ways to circumvent it, but the government over has already blocked access to Reddit and Tumblr and who knows what else. I can see them blocking everything.
But yeah, there are ways to circumvent it.
| Yes
| >>214984 Tor relies on exit nodes that use the regular internet. Blocking it would block Tor as well.
My advice, learn how to make a meshnet that doesn't rely on existing infrastructure and easily deploys. That's what I'm trying to find out
| >>217227
Does that mean one needs to use some special hardware? Also, I wonder in which books or sites I could get more information.
| Deep state ate my post!
Tldr:
I think there's ways to use wifi to connect to other people directly. Add multiple cards, better antennas, bingo bango, got you a meshnet.
N-O-D-E - rapid hw hacking
Hackaday - hw and sw
Hackerspaces are a big thing now - search your big city to see ifn there's one
Library?
| Hong Kong here, I have FireChat installed for comms in case the Monsieur X tries anything
| well, western governments are largely just facades for massive corporations that profit immensely from the data generated by and extrapolated from the web. Yes they can shut it down, but why when manipulation is easy and fun?
| It's been done several times before whether completely or partially. Usually, middle eastern countries do it. But sometimes African countries.
| Some examples from no the onion:
Ethiopia shuts down country's entire internet to stop students cheating during exams
Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/ethiopia-shuts-down-country-apos-114546315.html
Iraq shuts down the internet to stop pupils cheating in exams
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/18/iraq-shuts-down-internet-to-stop-pupils-cheating-in-exams
| Uzbekistan's done it too for similar reasons. So has Egypt but for other reasons
| >>219236 doesn't firechat need location access and doesn't work off wifi? Not sure but I remember some android mesh chat not cutting the mustard for us.
Try it out I guess, borrow a friend and chat with him. I'd do it myself but I'm lazy
| The American government doesn't have a Killswitch, but they can just call any internet provider and tell them to stop someone's internet, or else they'll get raided or shut down.
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| Hey OP, we alread answered your question. You good now?
| They shouden't ,but in some places they can...
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| For example, to avoid organization of the oppressed or the diffusion of certain information.