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There were some rumblings about building out an "open source" alternative to the Internet about 10 years ago. The idea was to use various WiFi technologies to create a network that was encrypted and controlled by no one. It certainly is doable given enough people, but it seems like it just never materialized. Did I miss it? Surely there has been advancements in the last decade.

Where I live I have an elevation advantage. I could easily host a high-speed point-to-point link with line of sight to other peaks as far as 80 miles. I always wanted to get something like this rolling.

There were some rumblings about building out an "open source" alternative to the Internet about 10 years ago. The idea was to use various WiFi technologies to create a network that was encrypted and controlled by no one. It certainly is doable given enough people, but it seems like it just never materialized. Did I miss it? Surely there has been advancements in the last decade. Where I live I have an elevation advantage. I could easily host a high-speed point-to-point link with line of sight to other peaks as far as 80 miles. I always wanted to get something like this rolling.

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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.