[HacktionLab] Android + Mesh + Diaspora + PGP? - lo-tech solution?

[protag]

Hey

This all sounds really interesting, but I'd like to ask a dopey question.

If I was in Egypt now I'd be plugging in my dial-up modem and trying to
make an international call to an ISP in a neighbouring country. Would this
work? Is anyone doing it?*

I know international calls are as easy to cut off as ISPs...

I've probably been watching too many films where the world is saved by an
old dude who can still remember how morse code works. I'm a string and
sealing wax kinda guy.

Cheers

Protag

*OK I just saved myself the embarrasment of having Yossarian send me a
"let me google that for you"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12322948





On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:09:27 +0000, yossarian <yossarian at aktivix.org>
wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> On 30/01/11 20:30, sam at bristolwireless.net wrote:
>> I realise that we are nowhere near this yet, but give it a couple of
>> years and could a crowd carry their own self-healing, encrypted
>> communications network with them?
>>
> 
> I've been thinking along the same lines, so I bought a Sheevaplug the
> other day, hoping to run a Diaspora instance off it.  Unfortunately, the
> datastore used by Diaspora, called mongodb, doesn't run on ARM hardware
> (like the Sheeva, or all the Android phones).  So on that score, it was
> a bit of a downer.  On the other hand, it does run pretty much
> everything else, even encoding video when I told it to (real slowly).
> 
> I'm having a lot of fun with it, cheap and crappy low-power computing is
> the wave of the future!
> 
> Yoss
> 
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