Re: [Mesh] humor

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon 21 Apr 2014 12:28:46 AM PDT, David Keenan wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/us/us-promotes-network-to-foil-digital-sp… > lets apply for some of that USAID to fight spying at home? This article is seriously disturbing. I didn't realize OTI was promoting mesh networks as a secure alternative to the Internet. In the Middle East. Maybe someone from the Commotion team is on this list and wants to speak to the actual goals of the project and ways in which the messaging around it could have been miscommunicated by the NYT? I think it's really important we all understand and emphasize to new folks that mesh networks are not by default more secure than other kinds of networks, though they are more resilient. This is why we have monthly cryptoparties at sudo, so we can teach good end-user security hygiene. We can further level up by promoting the use of more trustworthy services, such as Riseup for email and OwnCloud for storage, on the mesh splash page or some such. One bonus point for SudoWRT is that it uses wlan-slovenija's tunneldigger, routing all connections on the public network through a VPN. So actually, our mesh will be more anonymous (insofar as being unable to pin an IP to a specific identity) than most networks. Mitar, do you know of other networks using tunneldigger? We are also not funded by the State Dept. - -- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." - -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ mesh mailing list mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh