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Over at PandoDaily, Nanthaniel Mott writes, Are Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networks the Future of Internet Freedom?
"Open Garden has raised $10.8 million to create the next Internet. And as crazy as that sounds, thanks to the success of its FireChat peer-to-peer messaging service, it might just work.
Instead of sending messages through an Internet connection or cellphone network, FireChat uses the Bluetooth and WiFi radios on every smartphone to create its own “mesh network,” which can then transfer data between the networks’ members without requiring any external infrastructure.
That second Internet, or Internet Two or whatever it will be called, is likely to become increasingly popular in the coming years. Countries around the world have started to restrict Internet freedoms, whether it’s through laws requiring companies to keep data on domestic servers or via the imprisonment of people who use the Internet to share information the government doesn’t want them to share."
Are peer-to-peer mesh networks the future of internet freedom?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gravis on Saturday December 20 2014, @02:50AM
unfortunately, when you get a certain number of wireless devices trying to communicate at the same time and you end up with so much noise that they fail to be able to communicate effectively. now let's say you solve that, you now have the problem of having to go through thousands of hops just to connect to a server that on the other side of the country.
the truth is we need the internet backbone in order to have a speedy internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 20 2014, @01:07PM
Not to mention the potential for MITM will multiply like crazy. I mean, I know the gubment is already mirroring the fiber aggregation points on the backbone...but they aren't trying to steal my CC info.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 20 2014, @11:51PM
What about cubesats? If citizens launch enough of these into LEO with adequate hardware, there's your internet backbone.
Washington DC delenda est.