then we gotta work on DIY 3d printers then
Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoHow an authoritarian government can counter this:
Step 1: Make it illegal to use such devicea without a license.
Step 2: Refuse to issue radio licenses except to maybe law enforcement and high ranking governmwnt officials
Step 3: Triangulate “unauthorized users”
Step 4: Mass arrests
Allah@piefed.world 1 day ago
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can hide an intermittent mesh networking device in anything with a solar panel, it’s not that easy to triangulate users if the communications are intermittent (although that itself doesn’t play nicely with consumer devices.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Doesn’t triangulation depend on an antenna that broadcasts 360°?
If the signal is silent in most of the space most of the time, it won’t be easy to find.
Let’s say it transmits a directed 5° beam to 278° for 1 sec, then random seconds later to 96° for a sec, then after a random interval a beam to 28°, that won’t be fun to look for. Then after an hour of this it rests for 5 (also randomized) hours, while a different transmitter elsewhere takes over.
Besides nobody says people should just sit passively while someone is triagulating them. We have been damn obedient all this time because we believed in the system. What if that belief goes away? Is everyone going to just volunteer obedience? Even if only a few break the norms, while the majority supports those resisters, at some point it will be too costly for the olygarchs to keep raping their way to trillions damned be the bottom 99.9%. The fucks have been ruling us on the back of a buy in from us. Only.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
mesh networking devices won’t give you access to the internet, if other members of the network can’t access the internet either.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
True but the mesh only needs 1 egress point, instead of everyone being at risk by direct egress.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 54 minutes ago
a single connection with the outside world, probably with the capacity of a consumer connection, for the whole country? that’s too little even for just a single city. no one would be able to use it without some kind of time sharing or other access control