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Confronting Briar with Disasters
- jruohonen 3y ago"During catastrophes you most likely want to have at least “multi-hop social mesh” or yet even better “public mesh” where you share messages not only with your contacts but with anybody using Briar." What's the novelty offered here? It sounds like mesh sounds like broadcasting, and we already have those. "Briar could offer a significant advantage over analogous walkie-talkie communication if it allowed to send high-quality voice, image and other attachments." Insofar as severe disasters go, you have to consider the case whereby a whole mobile network is either temporarily or even permanently down. Ref.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39169066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39169066
- ephbit 3y ago> Unlike popular messaging apps Briar doesn’t rely on the Internet in order to keep working. Due to its peer-to-peer nature it can make use of various so-called “transports” to send messages even if the Internet connection is cut. Those transports can be virtually anything that you can use to send 0s and 1s, though currently only Bluetooth and Wi-fi are supported beside the Internet. Does "virtually anything" then also mean things like LoRa and Reticulum [1]? Superficially Briar and LoRa/Reticulum feel like they could somehow benefit from eachother. [1]: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum