Example: Like in Iran.
USB thumb drives. Sneakernet. Common in Cuba before they loosened internet restrictions, from what I’ve read.
How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet?
Submitted 3 days ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lora communication is line of sight. You would still need quite a few people working together.
mystik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7
See the section on the “polish anticommunist opposition”
It’s harder to track the origin of a satellite bounced signal.
jared@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Reticulum and NomadNet.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
IP over carrier pigeon?
BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I have heard about this meshtastic.org/de/
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Okay so the thing is, how do you hide the origin of the signals?
I heard that supposedly Iran sent police to go door to door and confiscate Starlink satalite dishes, so… like…
Which is why the keyword “communicate safely”
Seems like all civillian radios have this same weakness.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anything that transmits a signal can be found, just get that out of the way immediately. The only way to be 100% untraceable is to never transmit.
Mesh networks, however, are pretty safe. Triangulation the origin of a mesh transmission will just lead to the repeater node which, admittedly is a pain in the dick if they kill the repeater and the network goes dark, but it doesn’t lead directly back to a person, just a box they stuck on a cell tower or up on a hill somewhere.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Keep mobile while online. Make sure to turn off the transceiver long before getting home.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 days ago
All radios anywhere have this weakness, including the little radios in all your wifi-enabled devices. If they are shutting down meshtastic they are also shutting down all the local networks.
j4k3@piefed.world 3 days ago
Radio is trivial to triangulate the broadcaster if someone tries. You can receive anything, but not transmit. If you have line of sight, lasers can be focused to some extent to limit scatter.
One of the biggest changes in Ukraine has been attaching a very thin fiberoptic wire to drones for their connection up to a few miles away. That is evidence of what is truly required and pragmatic. So, start running similar lines if you really care and can come up with a way of hiding them. The only real option is to go dark in practice. There is no way to stop from being forced into becoming a slave in all but name.