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The best anyone can hope to do is roll things back to text-based systems... beyond that the cat is way too far out of the bag as you say.
by M_Grey 10y ago
The best anyone can hope to do is roll things back to text-based systems... beyond that the cat is way too far out of the bag as you say.
- mirimir 10y agoPlease say more. What sort of text-based systems? And why? Bandwidth? Riffing from Vinge's True Names, I've off-and-on wondered about mixnets as covert-channel overlays on high-definition video traffic. Given ~1% signal/carrier, you would pretty much be limited to text and small images.
- M_Grey 10y agoI wasn't thinking of anything in particular, sorry. I was just thinking in terms of what you're saying, if you break your messages down, hash them, send them in drips and drabs in the background noise, it would be almost impossible to track. Low-bandwidth MESH networks, and just plain people with microwave transmitters and receivers with direct line of sight, daisy-chaining around a neighborhood. The ideas are so prevalent in the public imagination now, that I can't imagine shutting things down would lead to anything other than innovation in the face of it.
- mirimir 10y agoYeah, that makes sense to me. I hope that we don't come to it, though. Edit: I'm reminded of Hyperboria and cjdns.[0,1] Arguably how IPv6 should work. 0) https://hyperboria.net https://hyperboria.net 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns