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I am reminded of a section in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age where (some guy) takes a whole day to track the history of the young protagonist in an internet
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
I am reminded of a section in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age where (some guy) takes a whole day to track the history of the young protagonist in an internet cafe - and an explanation of passing packets between passing devices as if handing parcels to random strangers as they walk down the street always stuck in my mind
This seems to be saying that Apple has a big mesh network play ready sometime soon.
Want to bet they have a good idea of coverage already and need some testing - they might not be able to see your location but they will see the location of every phone passing your public key encrypted bits back - they get to test their mesh network ? Or am I missing something?
- lixtra 7y ago> see the location of every phone passing your public key encrypted bits back My understanding is that (in this scheme) all location data is encrypted by keys unknown to apple, i.e. the reporter uses the lost device’s public key to encrypt its location and transmits it together with the hash of the key. However, apple seems to be able to infer proximity of two reporters, as described here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20135995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20135995 Edit: except if the Lost device is controlled by Apple, then they can decrypt the location of the reporting device.
- parrellel 7y agoThat was my thought too, and God I hope so. Someone needs to push mesh networking on a more consumer level, if it has to be Apple, so be it.
- edgineer 7y agoThere is one consumer push for a mesh-networking phone that was in the news recently, Volk Fi. Their idea is to use 900MHz radios in smartphones to hop several miles to the nearest wired hub, alongside a cellular SIM, where a hub owner earns credit for data relayed through it. Some pessimism surrounds them though.