So I've been thinking about the recent Internet situation in Egypt where the Mubarak government shut down the Internet in that country and I'm wondering how the Freedom Box could have helped there.
As I understand it, Freedom Boxes are able to communicate directly with each other. But since this requires a network connection, what happens if the network is turned off? Now, I can see how the boxes would continue to work if the network disconnect simply capped it at national borders (intra-country communication between boxes would not be affected) but what happens if the entire network both is truly shut off and there is NO INTERNET either within the country or past borders? Are there contingency plans being built into the box for this scenario? What are the options for handling something like this? Is anyone currently working on this area? Thanks, Anthony _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
