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Cyberattack by government is the most likely scenario, administratively shutting off most internet for most people to save democracy, women's rights and the pygmy possum. (And their own power and middlemen's profits).
Self-custody your files, and keep a copy of https://github.com/opsdisk/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook around. Also #Tor, #bittorrent, #ipfs, #bitcoin and #monero.
Other preps mentioned don't hurt, either!
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The real threat is always our own. Other governments don't have physical access unless they invade.
If youāve read the Critical Infrastructure Bill it gives gov special powers to take over any Org to which it applies in the event of a major breach. Thatās a one-way path to some REALLY bad outcomes where they can continue justifying their operating a telco or a bank or whatever they want by just telling the public āitās an emergencyā.
We saw how they abused powers during Covid under the guise of emergency - imagine what they could do with these powers..
Youāre right though about domestic, if we had extended interruptions it would be obvious who is behind it but imagine trying to tell Aussie normies thatā¦
Meta, Insta, YT and eBay will be available, along with govt and banking sites, and the two big supermarket chains. PornHub with a licence, but the rules will change constantly.
Normies would totally accept this under just the usual excuses, no unusual levels of deception required.
Its only money that stops them doing this already. Looking cool in front of America used to be important too, but attitudes to free speech among elite Americans are changed.
āYou can only watch trans and cuck pornā - AusGov lol
Bread and circuses for the normies!
Far too many people will accept Digital ID being associated to all these services but I think thereāll be a dissident movement when that comes in if only because the parasites canāt help themselves and will be too heavy-handed in censoring and banning and probably arresting people when they have easy tools to do so.
Itās one thing to block 4chan at the ISPs, and one thing to deplatform SovCits and Qtards, itās another thing entirely to have normies and boomers kicked off FB or Xitter because they spread āmisinformationā which just opposes the official narrative.
There will be a dissident movement, and the Great Rabbit-Proof Firewall will be poorly implemented because it will be designed by a parliamentary committee based on the time-tested principles of "ooh shiny" and "my expert needs another junket to study that".
I've found the Cyber Plumber's Handbook more useful than Tor for helping ppl get through really bad mojo govt firewalls. SSH is everywhere, and ownership is as plausibly deniable as a set of spanners :)
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Same reasoning (inverted) is why I fear the Aussie CBDC - they outsourced it to the private sector, broke it up into a bunch of sections and had them all collaborate on parts where they had expertise. Thatās how you know Gov are serious about making the system work, they didnāt just use it as an opportunity for rorting like they usually would have.