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So what can we do? I honestly ask. I'm sick of hearing such news, and as a community of "hackers", at least we should be able to have a minuscule influence. Ye

So what can we do? I honestly ask. I'm sick of hearing such news, and as a community of "hackers", at least we should be able to have a minuscule influence. Yet I can't think of something better than running a TOR node.

marcosdumay 13y ago
TOR won't help, they can't reach a node. Long distance mesh networks will help, but not completely solve the problem. We need to decentralize the connectivity resources, we need things like wifi drones with long distance repeaters, and we need them to be cheap enough so that they become a public resource and ownerless. But until we can make something like that, yeah, long distance mesh networks will help.
- kmf 13y ago
  Something like Loon? http://www.google.com/loon/ http://www.google.com/loon/ Though arguably something like that isn't safe in a war zone? I have no expertise in this section, but it is an interesting dilemma to figure out how to restore basic connection to a area in turmoil.
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  - saraid216 13y ago
    Some of the HN discussion when Loon was announced focused on the vulnerability of the balloons. The approximate conclusion was that the balloons were usually far too high up for any kind of effective attack by firearms. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Assad has the military capability to take them down.
ryanhuff 13y ago
Amateur radio is about as decentralized as it gets.
- jk4930 13y ago
  And this (Ham Internet) is what comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet Years ago I found some software (on SourceForge?) for operating Linux over Ham. Can't find it.