[autumnraine]

Basically I’m thinking along the lines of what we did before the internet with BBS boards. Just black screen DOS with chat rolling. Instead of using the connection to get into an IP address, you could use a private line to connect to a BBS type board.

Getting more sleep and also contacting my superhuman computer geek ex-brother in law. He would know. I remember watching that movie war games and we all joked about how they made that movie about him. He was putting the phone on a little gadget that dialed various computers with the squealy dial up sounds back in the mid 80’s.

[Eastbound]

ah, yes! The old BBS! I’m well acquainted with that, as my phone bill was phenomenal and I was really glad when it went the way of the dinasour. But you’re right! It shouldn’t take much for someone to learn how to use something like the bluewave reader or some such program to log in and get back in the saddle. I think it would be pretty hard for the gummint to shut down the BBS’s, much harder than shutting down the internet. But I don’t know for sure. They would have to shut down all phone service. Maybe ham would be the way to go after all.

[Myrddin]

Time to reconfigure the UUCP "UUMap" project with dialup modems to pass messages around. It worked pretty well prior to the general availability of the internet. My old Xenix machine from 1983 was part of that network. We're missing the big nodes like ihnp4 and seismo that acted a major hubs. The ihnp4 was owned by AT&T. The seismo machine was a USGS box. Rick Adams moved along from seismo to build the first UUNET systems in Falls Church, VA. Some of us "old farts" still remember how to build those networks.

[CutePuppy]

Sleep well, I don’t see much of a problem here. Something like this was long overdue to be consolidated from several agencies (mostly NSA) into one strat-group umbrella, in light of multiple well known attempted cyber-attacks from China, Korea, Russia, Baltic Republics, Caribbeans etc.

It doesn’t create any new capabilities, just organizes and coordinates them under one umbrella, with people who already worked on this and understand the nature and can possibly prevent enemy cyber-attacks, or help coordinate tracking of terrorist sites.

It doesn’t employ any “new” technology, or any “new” powers, only makes it more transparent, somewhat similar to or in line with FISA Court. If anything, it would be more difficult to abuse with impunity, because multiple agencies’ Op-Centers would go under more central command. Think of it as cyber-DHS.

[markomalley]

Basically I’m thinking along the lines of what we did before the internet with BBS boards. Just black screen DOS with chat rolling. Instead of using the connection to get into an IP address, you could use a private line to connect to a BBS type board.

Refresh your memory about Fidonet.

[Gondring]

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