YES!!! The Indymedia Site now being Torn Down by The Bush Oct. Coup!!!
WE WILL BE NEXT!!!
Read on about what to do. (mostly an improved version of my previous self-help post.)
The Indymedia Site now being Torn Down by The Bush Oct. Coup (10-12-04).
If we want to keep our poor besieged butts out of the Master Matrix, we may eventually need to migrate away from the Internet(TM) entirely.
Think about getting a Firewire connected 750MB ZIP drive. It may be better in some cases to use 250 MB cartridges, which are inherently more durable.
Firewire is intrinsically more flexible and stable than USB2, since it does not require the services of a massive CPU in order to function.
On the other hand, Drives that are directly connected to hard drive controllers are faster, and are not subject to as many plug-and-play glitches as are external drives. SCSI controllers are preferable.
The ZIP drive disks employ a magnetic medium, and they can probably be expected to hold their data for at least 10 years, and perhaps many more (contrary to previous estimates).
However, the rewritable (and ordinary non-rewritable) optical disks use metal alloy / plastic resin laminated compositions that have recently revealed a tendency to disintegrate in about 3 years or less (contrary to previous estimates).
All removable media drives are fairly vulnerable to malfunction if exposed to grit and dust. Magnetic media disks are vulnerable to external magnetic fields, although there is such a thing as magnetic shielding (typically involving moderately heavy metal containers).
The Internet is becoming increasingly "privatized"; the search engine services are becoming politicized, and Big Brother has been secretly watching the Internet(TM) more and more lately.
Although you could be persecuted if a legal search turned up unlawful information on a removable disk you were found to be "holding," mass governmental control of data on publicly circulated disks would be quite difficult, and perhaps basically impossible.