----- Original Message ----- > From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator > > On 2012-06-20 at 14:55:52 -0400, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: >> We have to look at what we're on about here: The ability to have >> little servers is one thing. But the ability to convey information >> outside of prying eyes is another. > > What's there to stop your average three-letter-agency from > walking around mayor malls with a malicious phone that works > as a node, but forwards any data it has passed on to the same > secret quantum computer they use to read any other encrypted > message on the internet? > > I hope I'm joking about the quantum computer, but I doubt > that a system that requires connecting to the devices of random > strangers, expecially one that is desinged to work with short > lived connections, is going to be any more "outside of prying > eyes" than the current internet.
For one thing, it surely costs more money to walk around every mall in the world than it does to slap a splitter on the big AT&T internet tube in SF. Still, the more intriguing aspect of mesh networking is the potential resistance to the internet "kill switch" idea that keeps coming around-- similar to what BART authorities actually did back in 2011 with cell service: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219158/SF_Bay_Area_transit_police_cut_mobile_service_to_thwart_protest -Jonathan > > -- > Elena ``of Valhalla'' > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
