Sadly from October 2021, their site seems to be offline
The project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate.
Reticulum network
This! Is the most resilient. It can run on anything, not just LoRa! So, it can work on underlying infra (assuming there’s power, e.g. renewables)
To be fair, given what lengths the police will go to messing with protesters, would anybody trust some random mesh network?
Mesh networks can be built on zero trust principles and have everything E2EE. Kind of like Tor.
But the more realistic scenario is the police will just deploy jammers to completely disable all wireless communication.
It could go either way. The benefit of faking an activist mesh network is tracking and surveillance for later retaliation.
It’s another thing they have to do. They’re not all RF/SW engineers so they’d have to adapt to it the same way they’d adapt to anything else. By building networks that aren’t corporate controlled, however, activists can engineer them around anonymity instead of serving the police.
No, but if Musk and Zuckerberg has taught us anything, there are plenty of engineers who are willing to sell out humanity for fascism. No one is safe, and we should not trust random networks just because it’s “activist controlled”.
