Better start getting offline contacts and friends...

[Rhino]

It's interesting seeing all these liberals who claim to oppose huge corporations having power...and are now cheering online censorship done by these selfsame corporations. Will they still cheer when their corporate overlords disagree with something they say?

Don’t overthink the leftist mind. We need to tend to our own future support, and, if necessary, defensive measures.

 

[MTA]

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have and I'm sure others here as well would do the same.

Any good beginner to intermediate references? I dont know anything about it really but I learn fast

 

[SQLGeek]

It's interesting seeing all these liberals who claim to oppose huge corporations having power...and are now cheering online censorship done by these selfsame corporations. Will they still cheer when their corporate overlords disagree with something they say?

Nope. AOC and her ilk will sic the dogs on them when they are no longer useful to them

What a time to be alive.

 

[no2gates]

Any good beginner to intermediate references? I dont know anything about it really but I learn fast

As far as books go, the best I have found is by WB6NOA Gordon West. Straight forward talk, good books.
For websites, hamstudy.org is a good site (at least it was years ago).
A lot of local clubs have classes and some are one or two weekends and they will administer the exam as well.

 

[MTA]

As far as books go, the best I have found is by WB6NOA Gordon West. Straight forward talk, good books.
For websites, hamstudy.org is a good site (at least it was years ago).
A lot of local clubs have classes and some are one or two weekends and they will administer the exam as well.

Ty for the info. Would you say that most of these people in these clubs are similar to us in terms of political beliefs? Im not an open minded fellow

 

[Lost Spurs]

Any HF radio people here?

So I got a pair of baofeng uv-5r radios like 3 or 4 years ago. Just tonight as all of the communist take over talk abounds, my wife says "we need some ham radios". Here we are, I have the handheld but didn't spend the time to learn how they work in detail. Time is short. Stay Frosty. My life has landed me at this point in history.

If the chair is against the wall, April 19 2021. Ill be at Texas and 6 in south college station.


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[CyberWolf]

The only problem with encryption programs is, can you trust that their program doesn't have a backdoor decrypt to it?
Years ago, I wrote my own encyption/decryption utility and made it a shared key so the recipient had to know the key I gave them via snail mail.

Was thinking about this earlier...

Something along these lines which might be very useful would be for people to create their own GPG key (opengpg, etc.), and selectively share public keys. This can be done securely as long as the parties confirm signatures using some form of "out of band" comms.

Once keys are exchanged & verified, they can be used to not only encrypt messages/data for transit (only the recipient(s) will be able to open, even sender cannot decrypt), but can be used to verify identity.

Few tips:

1. file/message data is encrypted, but metadata (e.g. email subjects/headers, file names, etc.) is not.

2. use a strong passphrase to protect your keyring, keep multiple backups, but do not store your keyrings in the cloud (e.g. google drive, ect).


ProtonMail offers similar functionality, is easy to use, and supposedly was built specifically for this purpose, but can be blocked off via DNS/registrar (and who knows if they've been compromised). OpenGPG can be used to enceypt and/or 'sign' data which can be transmitted over a variety of channels.

ETA: realized I had an "acronym brain-fart" above...it's actully GnuPG I was referring to (functionally compatible with OpenPGP)...

You can get the software here:

GnuPG - Download

 

[TheDan]

Well the 10 geeks who know how to do this will have a great time.

BigTech owns your phone.

They can watch all your traffic and remote brick it if you go somewhere they do not like. They are already doing it for China, and other countries.

I'm fascinated by the proliferation and acceptance of communications technologies. If they start shutting off peoples phones en-mass, there will be a guy in every neighborhood that will unbrick it and set you up with an anti-surveillance software suite for like $40. The work arounds will become common place.

Eventually smartphones and current service provider models will be replaced by something we can't even imagine yet.

How does that get past dns filtering on the router side?

By itself it wouldn't, but a VPN would.

 

[seeker_two]

Might be a good time to brush up on book cyphers and other old-school techniques....

 

[Rhino]

Might be a good time to brush up on book cyphers and other old-school techniques....

Fair enough, but the foundation is gonna be to develop a local group to use it with. We ALL know the risk of infiltration is real, so figuring out who is trustworthy and reliable is gonna be your most important task.

 

[Tcruse]

google/apple can run all your network traffic through a filter

can and do

 

[toddnjoyce]

Also, if you think running something like WhatsApp ensures security, remember that little app shares data with facebook.

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app

The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy.

arstechnica.com

 

[medicmike]

Any HF radio people here?

Yes but since I had to move into an apartment my antenna situation sucks and can't run my amp either. Likely going to be weak signal digital modes for me.

 

[oldag]

Used to be a powerful encryption program called Puffer by KB Software. Ability to use keys, etc. Not very expensive, IIRC.

 

[Cobber]

The Democrats haven't thought this through. Unless there's more than meets the eye here, they too are at the mercy of FB, T-wit, etc., and the Big Tech oligarchs are just as capable of shutting down Dems without recourse as they have done to the President.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

They should not assume that Big Tech hasn't acquired a taste for power that will exceed their own in the near future if not now...

 

[Rhino]

The Democrats haven't thought this through. Unless there's more than meets the eye here, they too are at the mercy of FB, T-wit, etc., and the Big Tech oligarchs are just as capable of shutting down Dems without recourse as they have done to the President.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

They should not assume that Big Tech hasn't acquired a taste for power that will exceed their own in the near future if not now...

I think they are all taking orders by Marxists behind the scenes - and willingly so.

 

[BillFairbanks]

For the last couple of years, anytime I pull into a big box store parking lot, I’ve noticed I couldn’t use this site. I discovered that my phone was automatically logging into ATT WiFi hotspots that blocked all gun related sites. I have to disable WiFi to get this site to work.


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[jordanmills]

Used to be a powerful encryption program called Puffer by KB Software. Ability to use keys, etc. Not very expensive, IIRC.

There's plenty of stuff that's easy to use, no cost, and audited by people in the open.

 

[oldag]

The Democrats haven't thought this through. Unless there's more than meets the eye here, they too are at the mercy of FB, T-wit, etc., and the Big Tech oligarchs are just as capable of shutting down Dems without recourse as they have done to the President.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

They should not assume that Big Tech hasn't acquired a taste for power that will exceed their own in the near future if not now...

No threat of that. The liberals in the Dem party are the same who run FB, Twitter, etc. Why would they silence themselves?

 

[no2gates]

Ty for the info. Would you say that most of these people in these clubs are similar to us in terms of political beliefs? Im not an open minded fellow

Most are older. I'd say the average age is about 60ish in the very few clubs I've seen, and they tend to be conservative and pro 2A.