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I look at this and think open source devices with mesh networks, that's what people need, but I guess the bad guys (government agents) can get them and locate y

• Gigachad 1y ago
  You'd have to make sure no persistent identifiers are emitted. Like how phones use a randomized MAC while scanning for wifi.
• goku12 1y ago
  Someone always objects when I say this. But here's the issue. You can't resolve political crises with technical solutions. You need political solutions. The regime shouldn't have been allowed to make such activities illegal and persecute citizens for that. But that isn't even the worst concern at this point. Remember that the military is being used to oppress political dissent within the country. Technical solutions may give you a temporary upper hand in pursuit of a political resolution. But without the latter, technical solutions will simply devolve into a technical arms race that you cannot possibly win, due to the near infinite resources the regime commands. If at all they can't defeat you technically, they'll just order an indiscriminate crackdown.
  • bamboozled 1y ago
    I think you're right, but I also think it's important to be able to communicate outside of the control of central authority. But yes, it's probably wishful thinking because as I said, they would be able to track you down with the signal your device emits and stomp you with the boot of authoritarianism. Maybe in the future we'll able to communicate anonymously with quantum entanglement :)
    • salawat 1y ago
      Sorry sir, to buy your entangled Q-bit card, we'll need to see some ID. <ID scan kept on file or forwarded to LE> Please, if you haven't noticed, network effects are designed to work against you punching up.