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Online tools help people reconnect after bomb blasts

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April 15, 2013

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The American Red Cross Safe and Well website is one way to look for loved ones; another is Google’s Person Finder.

By Suzanne Choney, contributing writer, NBC News.com

Following the confusion and panic caused by the Boston Marathon bomb blasts, websites have been set up for people to report that they’re safe, or check in on a loved one.

The best mainstream resource is the Red Cross’ Safe and Well site, where you do two things: register yourself as being “safe and well,” or find out other people’s status. Those people will have to register with the site first, of course.

Google has activated its Person Finder service to help people locate each other. The search giant has used this in the past, for both U.S. and international crises, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Japan’s 2011 tsunami strike.

 

If you have loved ones who ran in the Boston Marathon, you can check on their last check-ins at the marathon’s website here. (A marathon enthusiast set up an independent Facebook page where some are checking in, too.) The Boston Marathon’s official Facebook page has also turned into a site to share information about what happened.

(Runners, for example, who got away from the scene, leaving their bags behind, were told on the Facebook page that “baggage claim is now open on Berkeley Street between Boylston Street and St. James Avenue. All unclaimed bags will remain secure.”

Families searching for loved ones can call this number at the Boston mayor’s office for information: 1-617-635-4520. Anyone with information about the blasts that can lead to an arrest are encouraged to call 1-800-494-TIPS, or text the word TIP to CRIME (27463).

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Anonymous Project Mayhem 2012 Call to Action – Code TYLER!

Filed under: Censorship, Collection of Personal Data, Crossroads News : Changes In The World Around Us And Our Place In It, Emergency Network, Freedom, Freedom of Information, Fundamental Rights, Hacking, Internet Neutrality, Internet News, IT, Justice, New Technology, Security, Social Networks, Surveillance, Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands, Whistle Blowers, World News — 1 Comment
December 15, 2012
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>>> Anonymous: Project Mayhem 2012 // Call to Action – Code TYLER! <<<
        Dear fellows…
        We have grown fast along this world at rebellion.
        With freedom in one hand and fistful of truths at the other.
        Imagine we all evolve to make it exponential in order to a true planetary revolution.
        This can be as real as you decide it to be.
        We are all Anonymous.
        You are anonymous.
        We are all painting our world with colorful screams.
        We are all making Titans, that make us dream and give us strength to leave the cave.
        But imagine we all finally find the courage needed.
        to become the real change we wish to see in the World.
        Imagine we conquer Freedom by beginning to be Free.
        Imagine we conquer Justice by beginning to do fair.
        Imagine we conquer Truth by beginning to do and be True to ourselves.
        Imagine we re invent and reverse Reality.
        Imagine we finish corrupt banksters.
        Imagine we finish corrupt governments.
        Imagine we finish corrupt Corporations.
        Imagine war is over.
        Imagine no more of Fear.
        In this system built upon lies…
        Information equals Power.
        Imagine we start a Fight Club.
        Imagine we purchase an USB drive.
        Imagine we take it to our workplaces and pretend we have to work late hours.
        Imagine we accumulate all sort of evidences about illegal deeds.
        Imagine Conscientious insiders worldwide begin to expose all lies,
        inevitable and immortally, because no one can kill the messenger.
        Imagine we code an extremely simple interface so that anyone can do it.
        Imagine we all synchronize our clocks to act at the same Time,
        on the Winter solstice, The 21st of December 2012 at eleven minutes past eleven local time.
        On the 5th of November 2012 TYLER will be out of beta testing.
        TYLER is a massively distributed and decentralized
        Wikipedia style p2p cipher-space structure impregnable to censorship.
        This is a call to action to all top hacktivists, coders, cryptoanarchists, cypherpunks,
        Non-violent Civil Rights activists, free artists, Internet Censorship
        and Freedom of Speech activists everywhere to collaborate
        to jointly BRAINSTORM IDEAS to develop and improve TYLER,
        with the lessons learned from Wikileaks, Freenet, TOR, G-N-U net, e-Mule,
        BitTorrent, I2P, Tribler and many other projects.
        From the 12th of December 2012, to the 21st of December 2012,
        people all over the world upload the evidence of illegality corruption
        and fraud They have gathered To TYLER.
        Imagine.
        Imagine We leak all.
        And you know it, because Tyler knows it.
        We are Anonymous.
        We do not forgive.
        We do not forget.
        Expect us.
### “I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived… and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19 ###
Project Mayhem 2012 ‘Dangerous Ideas #1 and #2′:
Project Mayhem 2012 Tyler:
TYLER forum discussion:
TYLER pad discussion:
(Don’t BEE afraid to start your OWN seKret TYLER)
Project Mayhem 2012.
Game OVer.
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Technical University in Darmstadt in Germany describe how home routers could be linked to one another to form a huge informal backbone for use by fire, police and ambulance services.

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August 23, 2012

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Home Wi-Fi routers could operate as emergency network, say scientists

Researchers propose disaster ‘emergency mode’

By John E Dunn, TechWorld

German researchers have proposed using home Wi-Fi routers as a backup mesh network in the event that cell and phone systems in cities and towns are overwhelmed during emergencies.

In a recently-published paper PDF, Kamill Panitzek and colleagues at the Technical University in Darmstadt in Germany describe how home routers could be linked to one another to form a huge informal backbone for use by fire, police and ambulance services.

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Panitzek and his team tested the concept in the centre of Darmstadt by surveying the number, signal strength and location of routers using a sophisticated version of wardriving that was able to fix their coordinates with a high enough degree of accuracy to construct a hypothetical mesh.

The team found 1,971 routers, 212 of which had no encryption applied, and a further that used the obsolete WEP standard.

On the basis of the pattern of routers found, the team calculated that a resilient and sufficiently dense mesh network would be possible if a distance of around 30 metres between nodes was assumed.

One problem was that there were not enough open (i.e unsecured) routers which would require citizens to create an “emergency switch” mode to allow access to the number of nodes needed to create a viable mesh.

Most recent home routers can support such a system without modification as long as they allow for the creation of an open ‘guest’ network running in parallel to the user’s secured Wi-Fi access, that is firewalled from it.

“We found that with a communication range of 30 metres a mesh network could be easily constructed in urban areas like our hometown. The resulting networks showed to be resilient to node failures,” Panitzek said in the analysis.

The team accepts that there are some barriers to the idea beyond the mere density of routers available in a particular locality. Would users agree to have an open channel enabled on their routers?

A better idea might be for router makers to introduce an emergency mode into their products that users would know was fully secure, but the prospects of that look remote for now without legislation.

Mesh networks have been a buzz technology for some years and have found commercial applications. Arbua Networks launched a small meshing system for its own access points in 2011. Although a powerful idea, the technology remains on the fringes of development.

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