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I remember.
I think the left went hard core on censoring things like Human Biodiversity and Deep State corruption around the 2014-2017 time frame. And to this day of course. I just mean when the shift was happening.
So I think a lot of the tech types lost interest in things that could be used for wrong think.
Some links:
https://old.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
It would be cool to do. You could share retarded memes with neighbors. Maybe you could run fiber optic cable along abandoned rail lines and communicate with people one town over.
Could be useful if the usual public infrastructure is damaged or shits the bed somehow (or if they get overloaded with too many diversity hires to keep it going).
I remember back then someone posting that a meshnet had to have a way to control child pornography. I tried to tell them that a networking protocol is not the appropriate place to try and enforce laws. Network admins aren't police and a router's only job is to route packets. It's not like a TSA screening machine where some person watches every packet go by to make sure it doesn't have a prohibited payload. It would be more efficient and effective for police to do actual police work to catch child pornographers rather than trying to figure out how to nigger rig networking equipment to catch it.
The point is that no sooner does something cool get proposed than a bunch of people come out of the woodwork to fuck it all up by adding requirements.
The point of a meshnet is that it's like local very near by transmitters/receivers.
If someone posts child abuse on the world wide web that person could be anywhere.
If they do it on a meshnet then everyone would know it was someone local in the community.
Seems like that would be a great way for the offending party to get their house torched in their sleep or get arrested or have something else equally unpleasant occur to them.
Perhaps just like a notice that says "this network is run by your neighbors who can see everything you do on the network unless you specifically encrypt the traffic" and displays first thing after logging on would put everyone on their best behavior.
The whole point of the thing was that all traffic is encrypted. There's almost zero possibility of it working if it isn't.
We had something like it in Burlington, VT when I lived there years and years ago. It was just a private network over wifi. I assume that all went away at some point. It was cool though. But all it would have taken was one glowie to shut it down.
Why build your own if you can just build a private layer on top of existinf infrastructure. Thats the idea behind Tor and I2p.
With either approach you still run into the same issues eventually. Once the 5 eyes know of you there is literally nothing you can do to keep them off. And whether they can shut you down comes down to when not if.
You can do things like create super secure encryption but that only works when you're communicating 1v1 or in small groups. But each message you send the larger its intended audience the more vulnerability it brings. Not to mention that it requires the users to learn A LOT about crytography and in general makes the time to write and messages very long with a large degree of knowledge in the whole process... look around you... NOBODY has the attention span for that.
If I were to do something similar... look at Cicada 3301. Create a small local group, communicate directly and advertise very carefully. Make sure the only people who know of you have been vetted by means of some kind of IQ test or puzzle. Using a Raspberry Pi you can build a small private network that hosts a 4chan style website. You use some means of cordinating when and where people should meet in say a busy shopping mall food court... idk. Find the wifi network and use the right password. Meet and talk for a hour and then pack up and walk away. This presents an issue as the person holding the hotspot can be easily tracked while its on... But atleast there is nothing "online" 24/7.
For an added layer you need to develop python scripts that are built to use an agreed upon cryptographic mechanism. Rather than manually encoding and decoding letter by letter the user can just copy and paste text in and out of the script. This works well with OTP and python just makes the manual process as automatted as possible without introducing much vulnerability.
The revolution will be offline.
Why build your own if you can just build a private layer on top of existinf infrastructure. Thats the idea behind Tor and I2p.
Because they can just switch existing infrastructure off. That's a lot easier than sending some guys to take out the routers in your house and enough other people's houses that they can't communicate any more.
Ping me if something interesting develops here... please. Thank you.
I wrote and erased several things, I am a little lost when it comes to networks. I know bits and pieces of it but not enough to come up with a simple solution to this.
Mexican cartels were working on something similar when their independent & personal cell phone tower infrastructure was destroyed by US marines & navy.
Something I read in 'wired' magazine in 2014 before they were cucked to the nth degree but have not heard anything further. I did look for an archive of the article for you, but had no luck finding it.
WISPs are just last-mile ISPs. Traffic is still routed through the internet.
The internet is a collection of peering points. Controlling your local loop is as independent as you can physically get. VPNs with an anonymous exit hide your identity no matter what you use to connect. If you want to avoid monitoring, also look i to the Dark Web. Encrypted email, Torrent Browsers and Onion sites. Be careful, there is a lot of sick shit in there.
The internet is a collection of peering points. Controlling your local loop is as independent as you can physically get.
Better if you have community backhaul too.
Althea, skycoin, helium, aredn, gotenna.
There's issues after so many hops and so many nodes.
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