Some radio equipment and a couple of satellites should do the trick

Oct 28, 2011 07:35 GMT  ·  By

Bruce Sutherland, a veteran of the security industry, posed an interesting question at DefCon 19: How would you communicate with the world if your government turned off the Internet?

The concept is not new as it already happened in Egypt and Lybia and it seems as the US Congress is working on laws regarding the matter.

Shuterland explains in a 50-minute video how citizens can devise ways of transmitting emails and Twitter messages outside the country in case of a national Internet outage.

He details the equipment and the pieces of software required to get the satellites working in your favor.

The researcher's vast experience can provide anyone with useful information on how to use amateur radio satellites and other radio devices to contact someone on the other side of the barricade.