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The first thing I thought of was something I saw at a weekend hack event: in a disaster or when no network can be found, it looks for nearby phones over blutoo
by sethammons 12y ago
The first thing I thought of was something I saw at a weekend hack event: in a disaster or when no network can be found, it looks for nearby phones over blutooth and propogates messages until the original message eventually finds a phone to send out a communication over data or wifi.
- devindotcom 12y agoYeah I love the idea of this kind of robust mesh. I think it'll happen eventually. Alternatively it could propagate until it reaches whoever it's going to on the limited network (your friend in a different neighborhood) and then send out a kill order for the other propagating packets.
- nitrogen 12y agoThe kill order sounds like it could waste as much bandwidth as the duplicated message copies, and be exploitable to suppress messages unless it requires a signature from the message's recipient.
- comrh 12y agoThis sounds so interesting. Any more info (where you saw it or name)?
- sethammons 12y agoIt was at LAHacks. I don't recall the name of the hacker or project though. :-(
- fastball 12y agoFireChat does this. Not sure it was the aforementioned LAHacks project though.
- peteretep 12y agoI like that idea, but I'd guess Bluetooth range would limit it. I wonder if you could do something with special packets and wireless cards in promiscuous mode?