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There was an article in 2014: "Imagining a Rebel Firefox" ( https://medium.com/@efrensandoval/imagining-a-rebel-firefox-8eb8402a4cc5 https://medium.com/@efrensa
by pmlnr 6y ago
There was an article in 2014: "Imagining a Rebel Firefox" ( https://medium.com/@efrensandoval/imagining-a-rebel-firefox-8eb8402a4cc5 https://medium.com/@efrensandoval/imagining-a-rebel-firefox-... ) which played with the idea if every firefox node would become tor(ish) gateway.
Is there no way to build this in the Signal clients themselves? Eg. on is on a wifi, try to upnp, ask the user if they'd wish to help.
- circularfoyers 6y agoSimilar to the Tor Project's Snowflake[1] Firefox addon? [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/torproject-snowflake https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/torproject-sn...
- samename 6y agoThanks for mentioning this! I’m surprised I hadn’t seen this before.
- qwertay 6y agoNo because mobile devices suck for P2P. Even on wifi and plugged in you likely couldn't force your app to stay open and the phone on. Easier to tell a bunch of people to run a docker container on a raspberry pi.