With the FCC talking about lumping the Internet in with television and the other services that it regulates and with various members of Government calling for total control of the Internet, I think that the people at [redacted] news are onto a great idea: Lets’s create a back-up Internet — before it’s too late!
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Dead Drops: When US Cyber Command Pulls the Net
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‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions below and submit the location and pictures.
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We need to start creating our own Internet infrastructure backup and this is a great way to start before Senator Joe Lieberman has his way with an Internet ‘kill switch’ like the one China has that he loves so much.
“…We all know the limitations of this [method], so come up with a better idea and take it from there.
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When it became obvious that the [Soviet] government was lying to the people and Pravda and Isvestia were helping them do it, Russians set up a network of fax machines called the Samizdat, to spread the truth about what was going on…
“I suppose the Soviet media tried to ban fax machines the way US Corporate media is trying to ban the Internet, but the end result is pretty much the same. Once the people know they are being lied to, you cannot control them any longer and [now] the USSR is gone.”
Aram Bartholl is a Berlin-based media artist and started the ‘Dead Drops’ project during his stay as artist in residence in NYC at EYEBEAM, October 2010.
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