Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Which mesh system should be included in the Freedombox?

2013-10-12 Thread Isaac Wilder
Hello all. My .002btc: While there is tremendous potential in the idea of a decentralized material network of freedomboxen, I don't think it makes sense to try to collapse the functionality into a single device at this time. Certainly doable, but at this point, a huge amount of work has gone into

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox-discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 38

2013-07-31 Thread Isaac Wilder
Just FYI, I e-mailed the author to try to get a correction printed. I don't know why there's so much confusion over this, other than that the FNF has been (peripherally) involved in the FreedomBox project. Might just be the 'freedom' thing, but I don't know. Isaac Wilde

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Testing 2012.0617 Image Published

2012-06-18 Thread Isaac Wilder
cality. > > John > > PS: Wires and fibers are much harder to wiretap than radio signals. And yet infrastructure built with those technologies is routinely wiretapped, precisely because such buildouts require interfacing with corrupt state actors. respectfully, Isaa

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Testing 2012.0617 Image Published

2012-06-18 Thread Isaac Wilder
t / receive to other Freedomboxes directly without a > hub / router. Sort of an ad hoc Internet. > > Is such a thing possible with WiFi? > > Best regards, > Rick C. Hodgin > > ---- Original Message > From: Isaac Wilder > Sent: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 09:05 PM >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Testing 2012.0617 Image Published

2012-06-17 Thread Isaac Wilder
They could connect to each via secure tunnels using existing network infrastructure, assuming that your neighbors have such connectivity. They could also be attached to radio transponders participating in a mesh network in order to connect with each directly. imw On 06/17/2012 06:19 PM, Rick C.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] "Innovation Under Austerity"

2012-05-27 Thread Isaac Wilder
I asked Dewayne to elaborate, here was his response: " I thought that I'd address this part of your email separately. What I referred to in my remarks is a device called a transverter aka linear translator: . Hams have been using these devices for years now

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What Do You want to use the FreedomBox for?

2012-05-25 Thread Isaac Wilder
On 05/25/2012 11:19 AM, Anders Jackson wrote: > - p2p backup on other FreedomBoxes > Would be not to hard built upon git-annex, as Elena ``of Valhalla'' > mentioned. I can be set up so that each file is stored in more than one > place, and synced when needed. This could also be accomplished with a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What Do You want to use the FreedomBox for?

2012-05-24 Thread Isaac Wilder
Nick, Thanks for starting this thread. I'm intending to dive into a fbx sprint over the next couple of weeks, so this is really good timing. My first priority is to keep hacking on a distributed key=>address mechanism to pair with your Santiago implementation. After that, these are the first applic

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] A Simple Server Setup Guide

2011-08-21 Thread Isaac Wilder
hope that naming and availability is included. What you've posted is absolutely great. Thank you. Isaac Wilder -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOUahfAAoJEA8fUKCD77NLZuMIAIGU8W9BWkeMkPCnN+n9x5s7 7zvBb+OziRDwNfTohMwFDdjXf3rKEp+pqILx4hbqjn3iKlAzLF4X

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] DHTs and Names

2011-08-19 Thread Isaac Wilder
is that the name table should be hosted by a collection of trusted nodes. Have I missed something, or does this seem doable to folks? take care, Isaac Wilder The Free Network Foundation www.thefnf.org I've copied Brandon Wiley of the Foundation for Decentralization Research on this, in the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-08-16 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look about halfway down the list -- 'Makes Toast and Coffee' HAH! imw On 08/16/2011 08:54 PM, Bob Mottram wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:26:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:28 PM, J David Eisenberg

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-16 Thread Isaac Wilder
I'm glad, and I appreciate your feedback. You are right in your assertion that flexibility is key. Let's work to make it happen. > > --Sascha Meinrath Director, Open Technology Initiative New America > Foundation -Isaac Wilder The Free Network Foundation _

[Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-15 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, This is Isaac Wilder, from the Free Network Foundation. I convened a meeting at Chaos Communication Camp a couple of days ago, in order to talk about FreedomBox, FreedomNode, and Free Network Architectures. I told those in attendance that

[Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Tonight

2011-08-13 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For anyone at CCC: There is a meeting at 6pm this evening in Fire Shelter Mojave regarding Nodal Platforms / FreedomBox / Free Network Architectures. We'd like to do some work regarding the design of the software stack for the box. If you're at the c

[Freedombox-discuss] FNF/FreedomBox on the Radio

2011-08-10 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I'm here at Chaos Communication Camp, and I Wanted to let you know that I'm going to be on HXX radio today, in a group discussion about the prospect of civil, global, distributed infrastructure. I'm not sure what all we'll cover, but

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Chaos Communication Camp 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, Just meant to send that to Jonas. Sorry for this one as well. yikes. imw On 08/09/2011 03:17 PM, Isaac Wilder wrote: > > Hi Jonas, > > It's Isaac, from the freedombox list. I am at CCC as well, and am > wondering i

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Chaos Communication Camp 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonas, It's Isaac, from the freedombox list. I am at CCC as well, and am wondering if you'd like to meet up and grab a beer at some point. Let me know if you're interested. take care, imw On 08/04/2011 05:35 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Distributed Naming BOF Questions

2011-08-05 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been following the conversation on distributed naming for some time, and it still seems to me that we could drastically simplify the problem, for ourself and for all users of the box. Details follow. On 08/05/2011 01:07 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Chaos Communication Camp 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Everyone! Not to worry! Freedombox will certainly be a topic of much conversation at the camp. I am planning to attend to CCC, and I can assure that I would not be able to talk about much besides FreedomBox, even if I wanted to! On 08/04/2011 11:35

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Free Networks Manifesto

2011-07-21 Thread Isaac Wilder
ilman/listinfo/discuss_freenetworkfoundation.org Comments follow inline. Can't wait to hear your thoughts. take care, Isaac Wilder Director, The Free Network Foundation www.thefnf.org On 07/18/2011 10:17 AM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > El 15/07/11 08:37, Isaac Wilder dijo: >> I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Free Networks Manifesto

2011-07-15 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm definitely going to write more in response to this in a bit, but I just wanted to give you a heads up to two documents that were produced by the Free Network Movement over the course of the last year: The first is what we call the Free Network Man

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Working Groups and commercial tools

2011-07-14 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/2011 03:28 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-07-14 at 08:43am, James Vasile wrote: >> There are two questions here. First, what working groups should we >> form. Second, how shall those groups operate? I think if we answer >> the first, eac

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Isaac Wilder
o the other, > > either voluntarily or involuntarily. Agreed. User categories are fluid. Session categories are not. Users should be able to identify their needs, and pick a session type (anonymous, eponymous, or onymous) accordingly. Different modes are appropriate for the same people at

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox experiment & Sister project

2011-06-15 Thread Isaac Wilder
On 06/15/2011 12:05 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > On 15 June 2011 18:25, wrote: >> I guess for someone's blog or wiki, if ikiwiki is the choosen software, a >> simple DNS round robin might answer this issue. Then the user would just >> have to find some friends to be part of it, and rsync/upload

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] NYT: USA financing "Internet Suitcase"

2011-06-12 Thread Isaac Wilder
Hear hear! The powers that be will do anything in their power to maintain their hegemony. This includes shutting down both terrestrial and satellite communications systems. We must design systems which uses existing infrastructure when they must, but take every opportunity to route packets locally

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Objectives and Introduction

2011-06-09 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, My name is Isaac Wilder, and I've been lurking on the list for some time now. Looking at this thread, I thought it might finally be time to introduce myself, and to tell you what I've been working on, with some others, ove