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"News" ad-hoc wireless mesh network Byzantium Linux
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nooby

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PostPosted: Mon 06 Feb 2012, 10:18    Post subject:  "News" ad-hoc wireless mesh network Byzantium Linux  
From DistroWatch
Quote:

Byzantium Linux is a live distribution of Linux
designed to fulfil a crucial role in the evolution of the Internet.
That role is a rapidly deployable ad-hoc wireless mesh network
which can augment or replace the current telecommunications
infrastructure in the event that it is knocked offline (for example,
due to a natural disaster) or rendered untrustworthy (widespread
surveillance or disconnection by hostile entities).


Sounds interesting so hope for many comments on it.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120206#waiting


http://www.hacdc.org/category/wordpress-tag/byzantium


http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium
Quote:
Project Goals

The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system
by which users can connect to each other and share information in
the absence of convenient access to the Internet.

The use cases for such a system would be:

1. The infrastructure for accessing the internet has become damaged
or inaccessible. (Eg, a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.)

2. A central authority has decided to explicitly block or shutdown
key infrastructure. (Eg, Egypt's recent internet blackout.)

3. A zombie apocalypse in which the personnel responsible for
maintaining key infrastructure have all been turned.

The project aims to develop and publish the necessary documentation,
best practices, and software to construct and support such a system.

Our current approach is to start by investigating and documenting the
existing technologies which would support such a system.

In particular, mesh networking protocols, wireless networking
technologies, and decentralized (or less-centralized) alternatives
to internet addressing/naming systems such as DNS.

In designing the system, we aim to reduce the dependency on exotic
hardware or skill sets so that the system can be deployed quickly and
easily by average internet users.

An additional goal is that users not actively participating in the mesh
network (i.e., not running mesh routing software on their devices) can
make use of the network without having to install anything new,
jailbreak their phone, or pry the information out of a hacker infected
with the Exsurgent virus.

Jay it is way above what I grasp but sounds very interesting.
We do need to have ways to communicate even when disaster struck us.
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PostPosted: Mon 06 Feb 2012, 16:02    Post subject:  
Thanks, nooby

That looks very similar to ideas I was touting for puppy users
Sadly, I only remember gcmartin showing any enthusiasm for it

I like the HacDC website, as it has some ideas I can take back to my own LUG which is struggling to keep members interested/attending

Byzantium - Another one for me to try Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu 09 Feb 2012, 22:24    Post subject:  
I remember all the speculation about a daisy-chain/piggyback networking system on the Nintendo DS before it came out. Never happened, but the long conversations on warppipe.com forums back in the day were very interesting.
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PostPosted: Tue 21 Feb 2012, 08:23    Post subject:  
Here is a text from SciAm about similar or same idea. Mesh technology
as a way to get a user controlled internet?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-shadow-web

Quote:
Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web [Preview]

Governments and corporations have more control over the Internet than ever. Now digital activists want to build an alternative network that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down

By Julian Dibbell | February 16, 2012 |


That is a Preview text so you need to be a subscriber to read it.

But here is a mirrored version? Not sure what happens if one read it.
Copyrights Cops may break in the door?
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?9725-Internet-Freedom-Fighters-Build-a-Shadow-Web

where is the link? I don't see any click-able version :/ Nooby is chicken.
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PostPosted: Tue 21 Feb 2012, 08:54    Post subject:  
Funkfeuer free net - a working example, via googletranslate

http://tinyurl.com/7sykkzu

Beacon wiki translated

http://tinyurl.com/8xhqsmn

Model Pico-peering agreement, for people interested in trying this

http://tinyurl.com/7kotdhe

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PostPosted: Tue 21 Feb 2012, 10:05    Post subject:  
The language reminds me of German but much more difficult to get live.

I did not understand more than 5% or even less. FunkFeur should mean
RadioFire or ...

What about this link then? http://www.olsr.org/
and they had a page with many links too.
http://www.olsr.org/?q=links
In the video they mouth a "node" or Hub on a high tower?
Now that would cost extremely much money to do in Sweden.

So for to get this to work one would need much simpler solutions
than climbing up a tower that is owned by the carrier operators.


Off topic. They talk about software that has an IQ of 150 while the
Google translation program barely get what a text says. I trust that
the Transhumanists get it all wrong. There will not be a take over by
intelligent machines within 50 years. Sadly I am too old to be there
2050 to say. Well like I told you way back in 2012 AI is much harder
than what we wanted to admit.
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PostPosted: Tue 21 Feb 2012, 12:18    Post subject:  
nooby
Yes, it's German

I've posted about mesh networking before, there are more links, here

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=447411#447411

You have much more intelligence than current AI so now you can relax... Wink

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