That would be perfect but integrating with cheap cellular phones as opposed to 600 dollar phones may prove difficult.
-Matt On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > On 27 February 2011 21:37, Anthony Papillion <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? > > > Ian Clarke ('Sanity', of FreeNet fame) is working on a distributed > Twitter-replacement called Tahrir; he's very interested in making it cope > well with network disruption and he and I have discussed how > store-and-forward could be integrated into its architecture. > > The user-story I put to him was this: > > "Consider this user story. The protesters are in the square, and people > are being shot. Ali takes a picture of a dying woman and posts it to > Tahrir. Because all the Internet connections are down, his message doesn't > make it out of the square. Bahiya is also in the square. Her phone is in her > pocket, and she never takes it out. She leaves the square and goes to the > airport, where she gives her phone to a tourist fleeing the country. The > tourist flies home. Bahiya's phone is now able to communicate with other > Tahrir nodes, and passes on all the posts it has collected - including > Ali's photograph. Bahiya has never met Ali. She didn't see the person > killed. Bahiya hasn't done anything at all with her phone - she hasn't had > to. Store-and-forward technology built into her Tahrir client > implementation has automatically collected the messages generated in the > square and has held them until it can pass them on." > > Ian's response is that pictures are an inefficient thing to handle when > bandwidth is critical, which is true, but he took on board that the > highest-bandwidth way out of an area where network access is cut or > monitored may be by physically moving some actual store. > > I'm proposing to co-operate with Ian on his project, but I'd like to do it > in such a way that the store-and-forward layer could subsequently be adapted > to work with e.g. Diaspora. > > Cheers > > Simon > > https://github.com/sanity/tahrir > > -- > Simon Brooke :: http://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/ > > ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundum variat. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > >
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