Darknets and Mesh Networks

What darknet?

http://penumbralreport.com/2012/01/04/darknet-rising-a-private-secure-and-anonmyous-meshnet-is-emerging/

I got this one from Western Rifle Shooters.  They mention TOR, but I think it's been compromised already.
However, the concept is worth considering anyway.

We Can Still Fight ACTA

Please see this https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
The EU Parliament still has to ratify it before it goes into effect.

If ACTA becomes law we can kiss freedom of the internet press goodbye.

Prickly Pear Up North

I have just acquired a shriveled up prickly pear harvested in the winter from Opuntia humifusa "Inermis".  Muhahaha!
Why should I care, you say?  Has Penny Pincher finally lost it and is cackling over a cactus?

This charming plant, known as Eastern Prickly Pear, or just "Kentucky Cactus", is edible, just like other prickly pears.  Another stealth food gardening plant, because although they know you can eat prickly pear out west, I bet most people who own this cactus in the midwest don't even know what it is or that you can eat it.  You can eat the pads, which in this variety have almost no spines, or you can eat the pears.  You can make prickly pear jam.

I won't get pears for two years, so let's hope the Mayan calendar nuts are wrong.  This year is going to be my guerrilla stealth gardening experiment.  I'm going to have not only my regular garden in my yard, which will be all garden and almost no yard this time, but I'm going to garden in undisclosed waste areas as well as at someone else's farm and my gardening nut friend's yard.  I'll be growing things I've never grown before, like eggplant and Brussels sprouts.  I'll be growing a lot of taters on the sly.  It'll be great!  I'll be tired!

I've got to get a watering system going for my stealth gardens.  I'm thinking a 5-gal. bucket on the back of my bike, or something like that.  Well, if nothing else, I'll get muscles, but hopefully not from carrying water in an inefficient manner.

ACTA: Obama's end run around SOPA/PIPA Resistance

Obama just signed a treaty called ACTA into law.  (The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). This treaty allows any other country to request that ISP's remove people's web content based on claims of "copyright infringement", without first filing a lawsuit or anything to prove their claims.

Essentially this means now Big Brother everywhere can censor the internet by using other countries as proxies.  And we can soon say goodbye to torrents, songs and snippets of movies on YouTube, embedded news clips on blogs, etc.  I can't say how many bands I have become aware of and familiar with their material by looking them up on YouTube.  From Kid Ory (jazz trombone) to Lady Gaga (yes, I know, there's apparently something wrong with her left eye and she's named herself after some alternate-history occult version of the planet Pluto) to Gogol Bordello (gypsy punk).  We are heading toward a cultural vacuum.  Hear that sucking sound?  Oh wait, that's the dollar.  My bad. 

Well, maybe we'll all be playing in jug bands for fun, because the internet will be all Corporatocracy all the time, and we'll have to get unplugged from the Matrix to feel human anymore.  Up the skiffle!

Also in the works is a program that would require everyone to use an identity card to sign onto the internet, essentially making anonymous communication much more difficult.  More censorship.  Actually that boils down to wiretapping everybody all the time, in my book.  Perhaps hackers will find a way around it.  Hacking someone else's Wifi might be a way, but then that person might get in trouble for things you do on their connection. (Those Kryptes better get good wifi encryption at home, I think)

There's a 50-cent vocabulary word of the day for you. Kryptes.  Look it up.  I think it's a fitting term for what's happening to our government.  Roaming the cybersphere, they want to turn us laconic.  They want to kill Americans on executive order, or send us to Helot Hotel, of FEMA fame.  May they get wee partans in their choady beards.

Funny how international treaties trump our sovereignty, so that the people don't have a voice.  Unless we stand up and say no en masse, and make our elected officials withdraw from the UN.  Will that happen?


Not to alarm anyone but there is also a UN Small Arms Treaty he could sign that would make owning firearms illegal.  That'll go over like a lead balloon.  Or a lead something anyway.  The threepers are getting rather shrill these days, and well they should.

Band-aid Cure for RFID Cards

 If you are concerned about your ID and credit cards having RFID chips in them, they sell wallets that purportedly attenuate (block) RFID signals.  Some are made of aluminum and some of stainless steel.

There is no reason to spend a bunch of money on one of these fancy wallets.

I have discovered that a small Band-Aid tin is the perfect size to hold these kind of cards.  Since it's just regular steel, and I don't know how well regular steel attenuates RFID, I would recommend also getting some aluminum furnace/duct tape and taping up the inside or outside of the can with a couple layers, or just lining it with a couple layers of aluminum foil.  An Altoids tin would also work for this, but with the Band-Aid tin, for the ladies, it opens at the top so you can just pop the top and grab your card out without taking the whole tin out of your purse.

Aluminum by itself doesn't block RFID very well. Stainless steel does a much better job (also nickel).  I was just thinking maybe a combination of metals would help.

The kind of RFID chips they put in pets are of a lower frequency than the ID and credit card kind, and those lower frequencies are harder to block. They go through metal.  So don't bother to put tin foil on your cat.

I want YOU for the Tin Foil Brigade!

Cheap Wound Suction

An MIT grad student has developed a cheap hand-pumped wound bandage with suction.  Maintaining negative pressure on a wound helps it heal faster.  The bandage can be left on for three days.

Field dressings, y'all!
http://cryptogon.com/?p=27228

Have I Been Duped by a Soros-funded Psyops?

My last post about Newt Gingrich linked to a site called www.dcbureau.org.  Someone I know told me he thought that site might be funded in some way by George Soros, who also has his fingers in the Occupy movement and also in a lot of media.

Well, I don't like to think I got fooled, but if I did, I'll come clean.

Today I tried to research the matter and didn't get real far.  They have an email you can write to to get their donors.  I might resort to that.  I didn't want to bother them but I'm not getting much through other channels. The weird thing, though, is I could have sworn that earlier today their major donors were listed on their About page, and now they're not.  Or I might be wrong.