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Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest (www.vice.com)
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sadly from October 2021, their site seems to be offline

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate.

    https://meshtastic.org/

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I LOVE Meshtastic!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are you familiar with Briar?

    Works over internet, TOR, local wifi, bluetooth, even "sneakernet".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    My only complaints with it are that there's no iOS app, which cut down the userbase significantly, and that there's no easy way to migrate / export a profile and and existing contacts between devices.

    And I wish I could set a Briar mailbox node (without the encryption key, so that if compromised you can't read anything meaningful) on a VPS to receive messages when my app is offline. Right now the only way to accomplish this is with another Android device.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I've found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven't downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.

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