Charlie Prime
Paranormal Adept
People are working to circumvent corporate/government control of the Internet. Keep an eye on this interesting subversive technology in case you ever need it.
Suppose you are in Florida and want to send a text message to your friend in Seattle, but the "authorities" have shut down all the cell phone towers.
With a Meshnet, cell towers and corporate carriers are unnecessary. Everyone's cellular telephone is running peer-to-peer software which makes each individual phone act like a server, exchanging data with all the cell phones in radio range around it.
You send your text message. The message jumps onto your neighbor’s phone across the street. His phone sends the message to another phone 1/2 mile down the road, ...and so on.
Your text message dances across ten thousand phones, making its way across the country, until it reaches your friend's phone in Seattle. He decrypts it and reads it.
No monthly bill. No government censorship.
Here is a video from a company trying to develop this concept. This video will help you visualize the concept.
Now, leave those guys in the dust, and have everyone running open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) communication software on their phones, and we get this concept from the Meshnet folks...
Suppose you are in Florida and want to send a text message to your friend in Seattle, but the "authorities" have shut down all the cell phone towers.
With a Meshnet, cell towers and corporate carriers are unnecessary. Everyone's cellular telephone is running peer-to-peer software which makes each individual phone act like a server, exchanging data with all the cell phones in radio range around it.
You send your text message. The message jumps onto your neighbor’s phone across the street. His phone sends the message to another phone 1/2 mile down the road, ...and so on.
Your text message dances across ten thousand phones, making its way across the country, until it reaches your friend's phone in Seattle. He decrypts it and reads it.
No monthly bill. No government censorship.
Here is a video from a company trying to develop this concept. This video will help you visualize the concept.
Now, leave those guys in the dust, and have everyone running open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) communication software on their phones, and we get this concept from the Meshnet folks...