Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoActivists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrestwww.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down11
arrow-up1192arrow-down1external-linkActivists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrestwww.vice.comAlas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoTo be fair, given what lengths the police will go to messing with protesters, would anybody trust some random mesh network?
minus-squareHiddenLayer555@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-22 months agoMesh 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.
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoIt could go either way. The benefit of faking an activist mesh network is tracking and surveillance for later retaliation.
To be fair, given what lengths the police will go to messing with protesters, would anybody trust some random mesh network?
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.
It could go either way. The benefit of faking an activist mesh network is tracking and surveillance for later retaliation.
I mean, well, some would.