Darknet

[Ron Hammon]

Okay, geeks. I'm new to the "darknet" party. In light of recent Obama
(and Congress) actions, it's time for everyone to prepare for a possible
future day when the U.S. government turns completely nasty and vengeful.

According to Wiki:

"Darknets are distinct from other distributed P2P networks as sharing is
anonymous (that is, IP addresses are not publicly shared), and therefore
users can communicate with little fear of governmental or corporate
interference. For this reason, they are often associated with dissident
political communications"

"The current version of Freenet, unlike typical darknets, claims to be
capable of supporting potentially millions of users using an application
of small world theory"

Ron Hammon

[Joe User]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:37:51 -0600, Ron Hammon wrote:

> Okay, geeks. I'm new to the "darknet" party. In light of recent Obama
> (and Congress) actions, it's time for everyone to prepare for a possible
> future day when the U.S. government turns completely nasty and vengeful.

If you have to worry about fascist tendencies in the government, those
tendencies already exist, and are affecting your country.

The agent you should most worry about is your ISP. For almost everyone,
the ISP is the chokepoint that an oppressive government will use to
control free communication. For a smart phone, the phone company is the
ISP.

If a website in the US offends the US government, it will be put out of
business. If a website in a foreign country offends the regime, their IP
addresses will be deleted from DNS servers. So, keep a list of IP
addresses in a file.

A sufficiently totalitarian government will be able to trace all of your
net connections, but there is no reason to make it easy for them.

To cut your ISP out of the business of monitoring you, you need to employ
an encrypted path to a third-party anonymizing proxy. A proxy hosted in a
foreign country is probably a good idea. Also, it is important to not use
your ISP DNS service. An encrypted DNS service not controlled by your ISP
will be useful.

If you are worried about privacy, you should probably encrypt your
computer disk drive, and TURN OFF the computer when you are not actively
using it. The easiest way to get into a safe or read an encrypted disk
drive is to put a gun to the head of the person who knows the combination
or password. If the secret police don't know about the laptop you use,
they won't know to force you to decrypt it. Buy a used laptop with cash.

Secure your home network the best you know how.

Fascist totalitarianism is a political problem. As long as the US is
spending $400 billion a year on secret services, they won't leave people
alone.

--
The general conclusion is that wealth and
power have never been long permanent in
any place... and that they travel over
the face of the earth, something like a
caravan of merchants. On their arrival
everything is found green and fresh;
while they remain, all is bustle and
abundance, and when gone, all is left
trampled down, barren and bare.

-- William Playfair, An Enquiry into the Permanent
Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful
and Wealthy Nations, 1805