If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.
But of course I am sure it will not end this way…
No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.
Fine, but maybe the update fix a bug that hit other users and that still not have hit you, be it for sheer luck or any other reason.
I would be terrified of using a bluetooth mesh network in a situation where private, encrypted communications are illegal. That would be literally walking around transmitting your intent. It’s a great idea in a free country though.
You have a point but that would means that the only other solution is to fall back to personal comunications, every electronic channel is unusable in such situation.
In a dystopia, you want to blend in.
Or you can simply have so much irrelevant data that the few important bits are lost in a sea of randomness if you don’t know where to look.
Something like deltachat has the right idea there - you have to look like boring email on the network. Maybe even layer on stenography -sending boring emails with cat pictures, but your messages are hidden inside them.
The main point of using bluetooth is to not rely on a centralized server that can be compromised and/or shut down.
If you still use email as transportation layer you could just write an app that really has e2ee, plausible deniability or any other feature you want since in the end you are relying on the same centralized infrastructure.
Honestly, I would probably go with sneakernet. A microsd card can be hidden very easily, are difficult to detect electronically, transport virtually unlimited text, and be encrypted in-case the mule gets caught to prevent networks being exposed. The latency is just a necessary evil.
The latency is not the problem, it is already known that to move large quantities of data the fastest method is to send an hard drive (or whatever else).
The real problem here is where the mule can go.
Which would not be that much of a problem if not for the first 2 weeks, until someone put out a GUI to do it, with integration with app stores to download automatically the app…
oh wait…
Switch to mesh networks could be an idea. It is not that difficult to send messages with bluetooth, problem is adoption: a system like that works only if there are many people using it.
Last time did not end well for about 6 million people…
Obviously not the personal password, but sometimes you need to share a password. Think about the password for a remote desktop your team may need to connect to for troubleshooting a problem for example.
If someone can gain physical access to your PC you are done anyway, he van simply copy the file or do whatwver he want
I think that you overestimate the capacity of the yourger people to solve problems without any access to any form of online informations.
Point is that most people who read on Internet have not the experience to do somthing without Internet since they never lived without internet.
In Dell machine from that time (like the XPS 9550) is pretty easy to upgrade the Ram, the storage or replace the battery. On some models you can sacrifice battery life (using a smaller one) for a second ssd.
On some model also the keyboard is pretty easy to replace.