The idea is that it uses the UHF packet radio to mesh over greater
distances than is possible with Wi-Fi, the trade-off being lower bandwidth.
In general, we find that the UHF packet radio has a range of about 10x that
of Wi-Fi when deployed indoors with omni-directional antennae. This
(http://wiki.internetmachines.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Freedombox),
so if you disagree with my blatant plagiarism I will remove them and
apologize.
Credited plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, especially in
free software and free culture. Enjoy!
That's quite an extensive set
!
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https://www.isc.org/wordpress/isc-launches-open-home-gateway-forum/
http://openhomegateway.org/
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is delighted to announce the
launch of the Open Home Gateway Forum with an initial grant from
Comcast. The OHGF is a Forum of ISPs and vendors and Internet
Would someone who's in touch with Bunnie suggest that he
include a cheap RNG in the platform?
I have since discovered that Bunnie's main processor chip in the open
hardware laptop contains a whole crypto module that includes a RNG.
John
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influence was used in designing *that* protocol.
If you care about location privacy, don't use a satphone. Or hack
your phone deeply, to report a false location, perhaps one that
belongs to your enemies.
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If BitTorrent Sync isn't free software, there isn't much point in
talking about using it in FreedomBox. So far I see nothing but
invitation only binaries. There is a brief License discussion in the
Forum, but no answer from BitTorrent:
http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8504-license/
It is worthwhile considering the privacy implications of MAC
addresses. Here's some info.
* MAC addresses on Ethernet gear come in two parts: the company ID
number, and the manufacturer-assigned extension number. The
company ID reveals who built the Ethernet gear; the extension
preferred the sheevaplug so I could use an external network adapter to
change my MAC address before FreedomBox OS starts up. If FreedomBox OS
The MAC address is settable in software. You don't need to change the
hardware to change your MAC address. You can set it as the FreedomBox
OS starts
im looking for a way to install several dreamplugs in
several locations and be able to connect to all of them without
worring about firewalls
i guess a centraliced server to connect to will be needed
Look up Distributed Hash Table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
Lionel Dricot [0], Dr. Daniel Smith [1, 2], Michiel de Jong [3], Mike
Macgirvin [4], and Markus Sabadello [5] seem to have come to similar
conclusions: having a bunch of semi-interoperable applications that do
the same thing but don't share their data is wasted effort and added
complexity
That's it. Did I miss anything? :-)
Sure. Here are three more scenarios. What all of them share is that
YOU choose which friends with static IP addresses to trust, and that
those friends' FreedomBoxes handle much of the setup and maintenance
overhead. These three scenarios don't require ANY
The first step is to ask Marvell. Please do.
You don't have to ask Marvell. The info is widely available.
The DreamPlug has a JTAG interface that lets an external debugger stop
the processor, access memory, etc. The manufacturer (Global Scale
Technologies) sells an easy JTAG interface kit for
I am going to proceed with my own discovery as I have a very clear
idea in my head of how this will work.
Great! Break a meg :-/ !
Here's the small insight that helped me refine my thinking:
Sending packets from your node towards the Internet is not the hard part.
Receiving packets from
This is the path I'd like to explore for developing Freedombox tools -- the
ability to communicate off the grid using point-to-point with routing beyond
to some remote 3rd party.
Are there WiMAX add-on boards which do the same (for longer distances)?
I strongly suggest using *wires*
search and seizure devices that your tax dollars will be used
to purchase and turn against you. Knowing your rights, and asserting
them during the crunch, is the only way to protect yourself.
John Gilmore
Electronic Frontier Foundation
[This is why I advocate that our devices include multiple Ethernet ports,
so that we can run an Ethernet to our neighbor to build our own local
networks, rather than relying on wireless connectivity. --gnu]
Forwarded-By: Dave Farber far...@gmail.com
Forwarded-By: Dewayne Hendricks
One thought: what about a point-to-point wired connection? That's
pretty easy for humans to physically inspect/verify, and wouldn't need
the additional optical verification check.
Is there such a standard connection for common handheld
computers/smartphones?
It's called Ethernet.
Works
I am curious to hear how those in favor of paying some contributions
believe it will affect other contributions.
Sometimes people think that if some contributors are paid and others
are volunteer, the volunteers will feel slighted and won't contribute.
My experience is that it's possible to
encourage them to donate, to speed up
the work in general, or to integrate new subsystems of particular
interest to that donor.
John Gilmore
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CPU-intensive job.
One advantage of running some of the calls using both hardware and
software is that the library can check that the results match exactly,
and abort with a clear message. That would likely have caught some bugs
that snuck through in earlier crypto libraries.
John
useful pad - http://dns-p2p.openpad.me/1?
Apparently it doesn't qualify on privacy grounds. When I try to
access that page, it insists that I turn on cookies in the browser.
(And of course it's running on an unencrypted http connection.)
John
The updated status of 'we met, we have noted each other's
identity, we like each other' can be then transmitted [...]
I think it is a mistake to mix we like each other into the identity
verification process here.
The crucial thing is to verify *identity*. If i meet someone who i
don't
paper by Karger Schell that he references at the
end is here:
http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/history/papers/karg74.pdf
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http
It appears that distributed Erlang applications need all parts to be
running on the same version of the Erlang interpreter, or they fail:
http://www.erlang.org/faq/problems.html#id56230
We can't depend on every FreedomBox to be running the same version of
the software (or even to be within two
We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or
broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure
they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an
attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services
that provide
for the professor involved:
Dr. Steven Swanson swan...@cs.ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0404
La Jolla CA 92093-0404
(858)534-1743
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/
John Gilmore
I had ordered a couple of DreamPlugs from
https://globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx
https://dreamplug.googlecode.com/files/DreamPlug%20User%20Guide_US_v1.1.pdf
and then complained to the list about slow delivery. Well, the boxes
arrived and I tried one tonight. You plug it
I thought I should perhaps do some development toward building actual
FreedomBoxes, so I ordered a pair of DreamPlugs from Globalscale
Technologies. The website says DreamPlug - IS HERE!, took my order
for two, and gave me an email reciept on March 19th. There is no way
to track orders on their
training, then millions
can be freed from central servers and central surveillance. Not before.
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In may require a warrant, but following severe breakdown of civil
administration caused by either unrest or natural disaster, the rules may
not be followed to the letter.
I think it's desirable - across the spectrum of proposals for
user-controlled network devices generally, not just Debian
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