Mesh Networks Case Study: Hong Kong Protests

Here’s a timely, informative and short article by the leading open source journalist in the UK, about use of FireChat for mesh networking in the face of internet/mobile shutdown during HK protests (still ongoing):

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And it’s pushing the devs to add encryption, too.

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Making something like this work within Safe would enable anonymizing of users (which FC cannot do) and why it’s critical that a smaller safe network can sustain itself.

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