▲ 260 ▼ Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest (www.vice.com) submitted 1 year ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) No, but if Musk and Zuckerberg has taught us anything, there are plenty of engineers who are willing to sell out humanity for fascism. No one is safe, and we should not trust random networks just because it’s “activist controlled”. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago It comes down to how the network is designed, Meshtastic is open source, you can go look at how the encryption works right now. There are issues with Meshtastic from a privacy standpoint but you could somewhat trivially design a derivative that is much more zero trust. As with all things, layer your defenses. Not using the network that's known to be surveiling you and instead using one that you have some confidence is leaking less info on top of the usual precautions is a solid improvement. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago It comes down to how the network is designed, Meshtastic is open source, you can go look at how the encryption works right now. There are issues with Meshtastic from a privacy standpoint but you could somewhat trivially design a derivative that is much more zero trust. As with all things, layer your defenses. Not using the network that's known to be surveiling you and instead using one that you have some confidence is leaking less info on top of the usual precautions is a solid improvement. permalink fedilink source parent