I'm a little skeptical of wireless mesh networks as a general solution to this sort of problem, because they're inherently chatty, and have very limited reach.
I think a better solution is local wired networks with something like Freenet running over them providing distributed censorship-proof storage. The next challenge is to synchronize contents between local Freenet darknets over sneakernet, which I don't think has been done. On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 16:06 +0100, Cari Machet wrote: > there are mesh networks > > > freifunk > > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freifunk+berlin > > > > also when people woke up to the cables of the net all going thru the > US there was at least talk of making new infrastructure on other land > masses > > > i wrote about the chatanooga model that freed the fiber under the city > of chatanooga and also the future being wireless hubs not > broadband ... look to what the powers are making frameworks for and > develop outside that realm using its flaws > > > when i lived in syria i had video calls in the middle of the > desert ... no cell towers in sight - > > > iraqis had video calling in 2000 or even 1999 - anyone that had an > efficient fone (nokia was big) > > > in other words the whole system is throttled and thats not just about > speed > > > but quantum computing development is being ignored ? > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> > wrote: > Posting 'useful' (your definition) older emails like this I > think is good. > > >> 4. The non-profit, open-source, volunteer internet > providing services > >> or products at no cost or for donations. > >> > >> 5. The closed sub-internets, mil-gov classified, SCADA, > restricted > >> and special purpose networks used by operators and > administrators of > >> backbones, nodes, satellite, cable, wired and wireless > systems, > >> > >> Second, the unknown internets, with or without evident > access logging: > >> > >> 6. The covert policing and spying internet which watches, > logs, > >> mucks around, runs stings, causes accidents and shut-downs, > cuts > >> cables, runs surprise tests and attacks, and keeps alive > the demand > >> for covert oversight of all the known others. > >> > >> 7. The covert internets which hide among all the others, or > try to > >> subject to discovery by 6. > >> > >> 8. The evanescent internets which are set up, used and > disappear > >> quickly, openly or covertly, subject to 6. > >> > >> 9. The wayward and waylaid internets which cannot be > identified: > >> rogues, experiments, mistakes, erratic systems, unexpected > >> glitches and consequences, acts of nature, forgotten > protocols, > >> inept code, destructive code, lost access techniques, death > >> of the perpetrators. > >> > >> 10. Internets of combinations, hybrids, deceptions, ploys > and > >> warfare among 1-9. > > We need a good name for the internet with these attributes: > - not so ad-hoc > - physical layer > - localised/ immediate neighbourhood area mini-nets > > - eventually (if useful) a meta network connecting these > > Since in general we don't own our internet tubes, the mostly > profit-motivated companies that do have ongoing economic > incentive to > centralize, control, be taken over by larger fish. > > We need to grok a counter-principle, such that we can over the > longer > term reverse this trend. > > This requires perhaps some perceivable benefit(s) to the local > neighbours and their phy nodes, to warrant the hour or so > required to > connect to each other. > > So where could such features/ benefits arise?: > - some new dynamic of torrents? > - local/ community "library" concept? > - privacy? > - anonymity? > > > > > -- > Cari Machet > NYC 646-436-7795 > [email protected] > AIM carismachet > Syria +963-099 277 3243 > Amman +962 077 636 9407 > Berlin +49 152 11779219 > Reykjavik +354 894 8650 > Twitter: @carimachet <https://twitter.com/carimachet> > > > 7035 690E 5E47 41D4 B0E5 B3D1 AF90 49D6 BE09 2187 > > Ruh-roh, this is now necessary: This email is intended only for the > addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not > the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this > information, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email > without > permission is strictly prohibited. > > > -- Sent from Ubuntu
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