[Freedombox-discuss] Routing around nationwide and international Internet blocks

Matt Joyce matt at nycresistor.com
Sun Feb 27 22:40:15 UTC 2011


I agree.  Which is why I like looking at cheap easy to build transmitters as
well as some of the software defined radio projects that repurpose sound
card dsps.  The idea of using components that are available is relevant to
mr moglens interests.

-Matt

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 02/27/2011 04:27 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
> > The only solution I can think of for this is a modular hardware design
> > at the physical level that allows for pluggable communication devices.
> > Then allow individual groups to play with laser links, packet radio, gsm
> > / whatever in software defined radio.
> >
> > The problem is mesh networking tends to not work well legally outside of
> > 802.xx standards and 2.4 ghz.
> >
> > The plugs people have been discussing do not address these fundamental
> > needs.  I think that many members of this group are not concerned with
> > this feature set.
> >
> > -Matt
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I think you're right, there probably isn't a lot of interests in this
> feature within the group but I think it greatly limits a lot of the
> Freedom Box's utility. Of course, simply facilitating in-country
> communication IS very important and could easily be used to frustrate
> organized government efforts to stop demonstrations being organized or
> information being disseminated to interested parties within a particular
> country.
>
> Still, I'd like to see the 'what happens at the border' question
> addressed to some degree. Thinking about it for a moment though, I
> suppose the answer to that would be outside of the purview of this group
> as it would involve communication technologies that wouldn't be directly
> addressable by the Freedom Box. So maybe it is a non-issue for the
> project. I'll have to think about it a bit.
>
> Thanks for the input. This project is pretty awesome!
>
> Anthony
>
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