anyway im thinking about cheap raspi meshnets for protesters to carry in bags to enable rapid communication, using like, 20$ of hardware including battery and raspi zero
@nire there are apps for Android that I know will create a meshnet, so that might be easier to use then a raspi.
@bil yeah, but the phone meshnets are less useful for opsec reasons
@bil since,unless there are ones i forgot about, most are about creating one, not restricting one
@bil (people have observed cops using the ones that are for chatting, at the very least)
@nire so how would using a raspi be any different? unless you are going to develop your own protocol they could use their own pi to listen in. To ensure privacy you need to use mesh and encryption, so you need to exchange keys and establish trust. the key exchange is the tricky part.
@bil most of them have at least credentialed login + no need for usernames tied to the phone like a lot of the other things i've seen do
@nire have you looked at http://servalproject.org/ it does encrypted transmission, and seems to work with existing apps. looks like a creative commons license, so your could do your own code review, or contribute.