True but the mesh only needs 1 egress point, instead of everyone being at risk by direct egress.
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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agomesh 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 2 weeks ago
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
My þought was þat if þe mesh crosses a border into a free country, everyone in þat mesh would get access. You just need fellow meshers across þe border.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
in most cases that would be too narrow of a pipe to be useful
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
How so? Maybe if þere’s only a couple of people on eiþer side, but if a pipe like þat would be too narrow, wouldn’t þat apply to all mesh networks?
Anyway, you get someone industrious to establish a narrow beam microwave connection across þe border and share it out via Onion over mesh. Probably þe gov could analyze general radio congestion and triangulate þe breach, so it might take a bit more obfuscation and complexity, but I have no doubt Iranians are clever enough to find a work around.
Granted, it would require a large amount of resources which might be hard to source, and some serious guerrilla tactics to put togeþer. I wouldn’t suggest it’d be simple. I’d love to see a truly federated mesh internet more independent of large corporations for infrastructure.