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I like it - it installed easily enough on Mac. I started browsing around. I really do not have a quibble with the application itself - nor the intended use. Th
by mbubb 13y ago
I like it - it installed easily enough on Mac. I started browsing around.
I really do not have a quibble with the application itself - nor the intended use. Thank you for it I am enjoying playing around with it and am following the project on github.
Echoing others I would definately fix the license issue - and do that sooner than later.
I have a tangental interest - forgive me if the following is off topic.
The last line from the deck:
"It requires zero infrastructure"
and similar statements in the website got me thinking along a theme.
I get that this is a distributed application with encrypted transmission - but it does imply an infrastructure. Once you need an IP; you need a network.
I can see lots of applications for this - beyond the reddit/bittorrent model, this would be really useful
- aftermath of a hurricane / natural disaster
- Occupy wallstreet style demonstrations
- Cory Doctorow "Little brother" scenario
- etc - any situation where you want ad hoc, encrypted community
the problem with those situations is exactly that there is no infrastructure (or not a trusted infrastructure).
Locally (for me) there are projects like http://www.milemesh.com/ http://www.milemesh.com/ to try and make sure there are networks for emergency situations. But what if you don't wnat to use an official or semi-official network? Are there distibuted, ad hoc network projects that would work well with this?
- rolleiflex 13y agoThanks for the interest. > Echoing others I would definately fix the license issue - and do that sooner than later. Agreed. > The last line from the deck: "It requires zero infrastructure" and similar statements in the website got me thinking along a theme. Zero infrastructure except a working internet connection. But far as I know those mesh networks also work over IP (at least they seem to) so Aether should have no problems working over a mesh network. The infrastructure need not be trusted— the current Internet infrastructure is not trusted, and it works fine for most applications if used with HTTPS. Aether isn't too different, I'm literally encrypting with the same encryption suite (TLSv1) even.