Good question. Don't know. If they're that far ahead of us though, we're done.
FBXs will naturally encrypt things. It would take luck or massive brute force (or a quantum computer) to decrypt it. And ... who's to say the WiFi we use in FBX isn't communicating everything via a subspace frequency to a ship stationed near Alpha Centauri? :-) The FBXs do run hot you know. :-) Good points though. And I hope quantum computers don't exist too! :-) Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin -------- Original Message -------- From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 04:25 PM To: [email protected] CC: Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator >On 2012-06-20 at 14:55:52 -0400, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: >> We have to look at what we're on about here: The ability to have >> little servers is one thing. But the ability to convey information >> outside of prying eyes is another. > >What's there to stop your average three-letter-agency from >walking around mayor malls with a malicious phone that works >as a node, but forwards any data it has passed on to the same >secret quantum computer they use to read any other encrypted >message on the internet? > >I hope I'm joking about the quantum computer, but I doubt >that a system that requires connecting to the devices of random >strangers, expecially one that is desinged to work with short >lived connections, is going to be any more "outside of prying >eyes" than the current internet. > >-- >Elena ``of Valhalla'' > >_______________________________________________ >Freedombox-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
