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I've been saying this forever. This is a political problem. Tech hacks aren't necessarily bad, but they can only go so far and all have major problems. There t
by api 13y ago
I've been saying this forever. This is a political problem.
Tech hacks aren't necessarily bad, but they can only go so far and all have major problems. There tends to be a trade-off between security and usability, which turns most users off from using things like darkets and meshnets. In addition, I'm not familiar with any meshnet that could stand up to a determined assault from a well-equipped foe. Any Internet-based meshnet is vulnerable to filtering at the ISP level, and any truly wireless decentralized meshnet is vulnerable to jamming, detection and confiscation, etc. All meshnet protocols I'm familiar with have denial of service vulnerabilities as well.
Ultimately I think only a two-pronged approach can work. Tech hacks can make it a little harder to implement a universal total surveillance state, but only political action can solve the political problems that lead to its creation.
- drdaeman 13y ago> Any Internet-based meshnet is vulnerable to filtering at the ISP level Theoretically - yes, ISPs are in full control of what's passing through them. But, if we're not considering a whitelisting only explicitly allowed sorts of non-encrypted communications, filtering with reasonably good success should be quite a costly task.