> Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums
> Messages are stored securely on your device, not in the cloud
> Connect directly with nearby contacts - no Internet access required
> Free and open source software
briarproject.org
en.wikipedia.org
Lets start a Sup Forums forum there, it will be GREAT!
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I really want this shit to catch on...
Unregulated, uncensoreable and indestructweable Mesh networks:
The kikes biggest fear
(It would probably be infested by all sorts of crime, though)
Do you use it?
Lets add each other?
I really want to see the forum function in action with a lot of people. It will be insane!
I am too scared to delve innto it out of fear I might be somehow doxxed or my information leakedor somehow hacked, I am no technology-man.
Is it easy to set up on an old Raspberry pi?
If you use the TOR option you should be good for sure.
If you install Android on the RPI it shouldn't be that hard.
Well, does it work on a rapberry pi? Oh, nvm...
Is Rpi even an economical way of setting up a node (that is what you call one of the points in a network, right?)?
You don't need a special node, every client is a node aswell. It can be installed on any android phone like whatsapp and it works like a charm. The only problem is to add people because in theory you would have to meed the person in reality in order to ensure the crypto is right, but we can work that around...
Just install the app via the app store.
And how exactly is it set up on a Raspberry, and also, how do I make sure, that there is absolutely no way it can communicate with the network in my home?
Is it somethig that I can leave running 24/7?
If somebody loads childporn via that thing, am I fucked?
How do I make sure no chillporn is browsed over my """"networkjoint""" (However it is actually called)?
What OS should I install?
Is the app easy to install once I have the right OS?
it uses tor as end-node not was gateway.
There are no pictures at the moment.
You will only recieve stuff, and can send stuff but nothing will be wired through your network or app.
Better read a little bit about it:
Thanks, is there anything that can actually pose a parallel to the actual internet, something that achieves the same functionality, just in a decentralized manner, without obongo being able to pull the plug on the nameservers in the US for example?
Some infrstructure that doesn't need the backbone once the density is high enough?
no, the base Internet is always needed, so you always need to pay your ISP, but you can use a "layer above" that will act in that decentralised maner so your ISP doen't know what you do. (see TOR, I2P, Retroshare etc.)
Did you install the app?
>no
no
>is there anything that can actually pose a parallel to the actual internet, something that achieves the same functionality, just in a decentralized manner
yes
in theory, if enough ppl have some form of 'wireless', you can use peer to peer 'ad hoc' mesh type radio networking.
in ye olden days, this was referred to as 'packet radio', sending data over a radio signal.
bill gates tried a similar idea with fixing africa... distributing lots of computers with radio links that could bounce / echo / repeat / forward traffic from one to the other.
see pic related and note large areals poking out of top.
there are also very long range wi-fi technologies that are specifically designed to function on that basis, by having each device function as a repeat / node. they can achieve ~200 miles range at the moment
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the bandwidth is, as might be expected, very low going over such a long range with just two points involved, and very low powers. however it'd work for basic messaging / improve with more nodes.
an old skool 'wireless' essentially provides the same function. you can send messages to the opposite side of the planet with a relatively cheap radio; morse code / speech for instance.
radios are actually a far more secure way to send msgs than expected, even when not encrypted etc, provided you use single use code words.
if there was some kind of boom in long range nodes / encrypted messaging devices, it would definitely be possible to 'go off grid' digitally; i.e. no single service provider in the way.
it could be an entertaining thing to attempt if you could figure out where the highest density of pols are. if everyone in that area set up some form of LoRa node, you could move at least part of Sup Forums 'off grid'. it was also be entertaining to do / another Sup Forums landmark as no one else has yet attempted / managed to run an off grid net.
unusable approach, therefore no.
Awesome.
So, what I am basically getting is this:
High-speed infrastucture is only possible with current market solutions with some degree of centralization/large buisness, which automatically results in a certaind degree of power/monopoly
>who builds roads in AnCapistan?
I just got a cable to connect my Rpi to the screen, can't use the PC I am posting from and the Rpi simultaneoulsy, I forgot my login details, I think I had Raspbian installed.
I have yet to find a SD card reader (my current PC doesn't have an SD slot). Maybe I can flash a new OS onto the card with the right OS and then install your weird CryptoChat then?
do you have an android phone? Use that.
>kikes which will destroy NN
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>unusable approach, therefore no.
considering its the same approach the telecoms companies themselves use (repeaters) it's not unusable. the only difference if the scale of the individual repeaters / bandwidth of each.
what's important to remember is that the companies can't install towers absolutely everywhere, and they also want to stream vast quantities of high resolution video through the towers they do have.
the mesh type network is the opposite, you'd not get a lot through each node, but the number in an area could support more bandwidth than a single node.
also, if you look at sites like this, the amount of traffic through it (data wise) wouldn't even come close to a few uchoob channels because it's mainly text / basic picture based.
>Awesome.
>So, what I am basically getting is this:
>High-speed infrastucture is only possible with current market solutions with some degree of centralization/large buisness, which automatically results in a certaind degree of power/monopoly
not necessarily. for instance, if everyone's router was used a node in the mesh network, you could potentially get reasonable speeds through it.
the issue for something like moving Sup Forums off grid would be just finding enough ppl in an area willing to buy / setup a LoRa type board.
but the bandwidth through it definitely wouldn't support stuff like video streaming with just a few ppl involved.
it'd do text with what i suspect to be the density of pol'ers. are possibly basic pictures, but slowly.
just start using briar guys. I want to test the forum function, it is interesting af and could Sup Forums really bring off-grid.
>not necessarily. for instance, if everyone's router was used a node in the mesh network, you could potentially get reasonable speeds through it.
incidentally, the telecoms companies already do this if you're not aware.
some of the ISPs will sell access to the net through your router to people near by.
if it comes to it, packet/D-Star/etc radio will be the backup internet if things really go 1984 on us, (Which i don't see happening but whatever). Glad I have packet radio set up just in case.
t. amateur radio operator (who isn't old as fuck)
>tfw windows phone
>t. amateur radio operator (who isn't old as fuck)
kekkity
a possible new boom in radio operators? hmmm
have u ever tried to gauge the ranges / baud rates ur getting on the packet side?