• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    To be fair, given what lengths the police will go to messing with protesters, would anybody trust some random mesh network?

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      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.

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        It could go either way. The benefit of faking an activist mesh network is tracking and surveillance for later retaliation.

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          It’s another thing they have to do. They’re not all RF/SW engineers so they’d have to adapt to it the same way they’d adapt to anything else. By building networks that aren’t corporate controlled, however, activists can engineer them around anonymity instead of serving the police.

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            2 hours ago

            No, but if Musk and Zuckerberg has taught us anything, there are plenty of engineers who are willing to sell out humanity for fascism. No one is safe, and we should not trust random networks just because it’s “activist controlled”.