Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
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Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
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To be fair, given what lengths the police will go to messing with protesters, would anybody trust some random mesh network?
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Mesh networks can be built on zero trust principles and have everything E2EE. Kind of like Tor.
But the more realistic scenario is the police will just deploy jammers to completely disable all wireless communication.
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I mean, well, some.
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Reticulum network
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This! Is the most resilient. It can run on anything, not just LoRa! So, it can work on underlying infra (assuming there's power, e.g. renewables)
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Sadly from October 2021, their site seems to be offline
The project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate.
https://meshtastic.org/
I LOVE Meshtastic!
If someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.
https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301
It's a fun project!
There are lots of competing LoRa mesh networks right now.
My truly desperate what?
Are you familiar with Briar?
Works over internet, TOR, local wifi, bluetooth, even "sneakernet".
No I’m not. Looking foward to reading this
My only complaints with it are that there's no iOS app, which cut down the userbase significantly, and that there's no easy way to migrate / export a profile and and existing contacts between devices.
And I wish I could set a Briar mailbox node (without the encryption key, so that if compromised you can't read anything meaningful) on a VPS to receive messages when my app is offline. Right now the only way to accomplish this is with another Android device.
Is that still in development? The desktop client at least looks like it hasn't been updated in quite some time.
Maybe https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/ as an alternative
Oops. Didn't check the date; saw it on https://mastodon.social/explore/links.
Yeah I’ve fall for it me too and foward it to my friend, cool projet nonetheless sadly it seems to be nowhere to be found 😢