Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2013-10-12 09:36:15) > [Sandy Harris] >> As I see it, security has to be the first consideration for any Box >> component, including a mesh system. Given the stated project goals we >> should not even consider anything unless we have good reason to >> consider it secure. > > Well, I believe that is putting the cart in front of the horse, given > the current amount of people involved. I believe we first need to get > something useful that can be located in the privacy of the users homes > to get that legal protection, and then we can continue improving that > to make it more and more "secure", which is a word that mean different > things to different people and thus hard to have as a fuzzy goal. > > This mean to me that we pick solutions already in common use and > integrate it into the Freedombox, and depend on the rest of the free > software community to audit it (with our help, if someone in the > Freedombox want to spend time on it).
I perfectly agree with *both* of you above - except your very first sentence, Petter: a) First consideration should be security b) First features added should be useful and in common use Since I am not experienced with using Debian for mesh networking, and apparently others on this list isn't either, I would look at _different_ features than mesh networking for now - while we try generate (or locate existing) experiences and common practices of using mesh networking in Debian more broadly, which we can _then_ include in FreedomBox. > I've concluded I will focus on batman-adv for now, as it provide layer > 2 mesh networking (as in both IPv4 and IPv6 will work) and is used by > the Serval project that provide a peer-to-peer phone system that allow > phone calls and "SMS" messaging without central infrastucture. If the > freedombox provide mesh nodes compatible with the Serval project, we > get free software phone support for free. :) Great that you'll do more research into mesh networking. Sounds like a sensible choice, from the facts you provide. Looking forward to hear more from that research, so we can *then* consider if sensible to include in FreedomBox. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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