Sure, everything you’re saying about the technology is true, but what about the ISPs? There are precious few of them; if they were to become compromised (like the media), how would the average person be able to connect?
Honest question (because I don’t know): if I want to connect to the Internet—the World Wide Web—without having to rely on an ISP or commit a property crime, is there a way to do it? In other words, become an ISP myself? Then, are there further chokepoints (beyond the inconvenient but definitely surmountable DNS issue), and would the backhaul installation costs be at all feasible?
Satellites can have really bad connections when they don’t have good line of sight, and not only are they still ISPs (albeit potentially diversifying nations) but they are ISPs who have the (usually government) connections to launch satellites into orbit.
I don’t know enough about this subject (WWW topology), but it seems like there are serious chokepoints in its practical implementation that can easily be controlled, compared to HAM radio, where broadband jamming over a wide area is borderline impossible to do, especially in a serious breakdown scenario where HAMs stop limiting themselves to their allocated bands.
Sure, everything you’re saying about the technology is true, but what about the ISPs? There are precious few of them; if they were to become compromised (like the media), how would the average person be able to connect?
So, let’s geek out a little bit for fun.
Honest question (because I don’t know): if I want to connect to the Internet—the World Wide Web—without having to rely on an ISP or commit a property crime, is there a way to do it? In other words, become an ISP myself? Then, are there further chokepoints (beyond the inconvenient but definitely surmountable DNS issue), and would the backhaul installation costs be at all feasible?
Satellites can have really bad connections when they don’t have good line of sight, and not only are they still ISPs (albeit potentially diversifying nations) but they are ISPs who have the (usually government) connections to launch satellites into orbit.
I don’t know enough about this subject (WWW topology), but it seems like there are serious chokepoints in its practical implementation that can easily be controlled, compared to HAM radio, where broadband jamming over a wide area is borderline impossible to do, especially in a serious breakdown scenario where HAMs stop limiting themselves to their allocated bands.