Jelbert Holtrop wrote: > What just happened in Iran made me thinking, would it be possible > to communicate with others without making use of the IT infrastructure. > The mobile phones that have wifi could talk to each other without an > external hub. So i'm imagining a network where users transport the > mesages by moving around with their phone. When the phone is > in poximity of other phones with the software they transmit the mesages > from the network. If a user travels to an other town the mesages will be > spread to that other town. Maybe it could intergrate with freenet to > also have a faster distribution world wide.
way way back in the long long ago, there was a protocol called UUCP, if I recall. The internet backbone hadn't yet been built, see, so how it had to work was each mainframe/mini/BBS, etc, collected mail from all of its users each night at around 2 AM, and then dialed up each of its peers. it would then exchange usenet news postings and e-mail. Each e-mail address was something like f...@bar!baz!bat!boof etc... This was called a bang path. So the first machine would dial boof and send the message, the second would dial bat and send the message, and baz would dial bar... fuckit, I have a dusty old book I was about to chuck, lemme see what it sez; bleh, why bother.... The thing that bothers me the most about using mobile fonez is that they're pre-0wn3d by the NSA coming out of the store. I do not own one and I do not want one. > What do you guys think of this? It would be complicated to make. I'm > not a very good programmer, never got the hang of oo. So where to > start? Are there any other programmers out there interested in this? When the Shit Hits The Fan (TM), and there is no if, then another thing to consider is sneakernet. Portable media these days has huge capacity and is very tiny. Every time you meet someone, ask them if they have a chip to swap with you. If they do, then take it read it, update the files in any way you choose, then swap it with someone else. The gubbernment would have to go to absurdly extreme lengths to even try to shut down sneakernet! =P Unless they go totally orwellian, there is no way to detect it much less stop it more than a small handful of participants. -- New president: Here we go again... Chemistry.com: A total rip-off. Powers are not rights. _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
