The Big Dipper was visible out my kitchen window which faces north tonight.
If I ducked and looked I could see Polaris too. For those that don't know
the Big Dipper is called the
Ursa Major constellation. I came up with the hypothesis that in 6 months
when I look out this window at the same time that
Ursa Major
will be out of
my field of view because of how the window is like. But I should be able to
see Polaris still although I won't be able to identify it.
http://centroid.eu/public/centroid-blog.sh.txt. I wrote this small shell script for you (and me). It deobfuscates
the blog just like javascript does on graphical browsers, but you only get the
first 10 articles which should be enough. Cheers!
For the past few weeks everything in the media is about PRISM, NSA and
BND, but I'm gonna talk about the real problem (topologies)
and what I think is a solution, mesh networking...
I've had some problems with bots from companies that don't honour the
robots.txt file. This exposed my blog to some search engines, not
something I prefer. So I have started to obfuscate my blog with PHP and
javascript. Basically what it does is it creates a random password and
based on that password a random sequence of numbers by hashing the password,
taking the lowest byte and hashing the hash again, taking the lowest byte
and so on. After some processing the lowest bytes make a sequence that is
always the same. So when I apply that sequence of bytes and XOR it to my
blogs contents then a garble will result. It looks like encryption but it's
not it's only obfuscation, but it also makes people who sniff the wire have
a harder time figuring out what's going on. Unless they also use javascript.
AFAIK google bot uses javascript but it also honours robots.txt so we're even
on that. If you're using lynx you can't read this blog anymore unfortunately,
switch to X11/firefox.
I don't know where this is, it's somewhere in Africa, but the paths are
an inspiration how the Internet should be like on earth.
Imagine the trails being cat5 cables, now imagine how you could route around
a hut without being seen.
Also more importantly these trails were made by people for the people, and
that's how the Internet should be like too. Forget it being served by
telcos, that only invites spying.
I got LTE finally and configured it to my home network. Everything works
again. Here is the timeline of what I noticed with my network.
Wednesday, June 26th, I noticed massive wifi interference and noise and I
had to move to cable, I dug out my 20 meter cat5 cable and service was
restored my Monday July 1st.
Wednesday, July 3rd, I noticed massive DSL resynchronisations and Internet
became unbearable for me, it took until Saturday to get a ticket opened.
Monday July 8th, got LTE and restored service
Tueday July 9th, moved back to wireless but into the 5Ghz spectrum where
there is no interfering neighbours, in fact it seems around here the 5Ghz
spectrum is entirely vacant, in contrast to the 2.4 Ghz spectrum which has
10 or so AP's on it.
All in all this has been a very stressful week, considering I work remotely
over the Internet, it put strain on operations.
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As you may or may not know, I work remotely over the Internet. So it's a
great problem then, when my sole link to the Internet goes down. And it
has been intermittently down since wednesday. For the past few weeks I've
been trying to get a hold of this shop to get me LTE and I surprisingly got
a hold of him last week. He's got an LTE router and SIM card for me, that
I'll use as a backup link. It'll cost more than my DSL and doesn't have
as much traffic volume, but it's sufficient to give me a few days of DSL
backup. My DSL will be fixed by wednesday my DSL provider m-net told me,
but I can't wait, I gotta make money somehow. So in a way it's a blessing
to be getting an LTE link. I couldn't get a Satellite link which would have
been my first choice, because I don't face south with my apartment. And
cable Internet isn't wanted by my landlord. I do have line of sight to a lot
of people though that do have a southern sky. Any of my neighbours that
are reading want to give me a sat backup? :-)
PRISM is perhaps at its end. There is 2 non-US cables being laid that isolate
the US entirely. Take a look at the following cables BRICS, ROTACS and
arcticfibre on Greg's Cable Map. BRICS
and ROTAC open Asia to Europe and South America, avoiding the USA. This is
all good for everyone, the US will have more capacity in it's intra-national
fibre all of a sudden, they'll also have less opportunities to spy on this
data. It's also good for UNASUR countries who may want trade with Asia and
don't want the US to know about it. And I believe my route may go through
Moscow before soon to reach Hong Kong, again avoiding US territory.
I'm thinking news of this all will make some people mad and others happy.
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