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On 06/25/2014 12:59 AM, Mitar wrote:
Hi!
Hello again.
Maybe the difference is motivation why people
participate in the
first place? In Slovenia, main motivation is for most people
sharing of Internet connectivity with others - they are not
utilizing it fully, so they want to share it. For them is easier to
share the connection than
In the US, sharing one's bandwidth is considered risky at best,
dangerous at worst. Getting DMCA'd because somebody ran a torrent
over your connection, getting raided because a neighbor downloaded
something illegal using your connection, getting your service cut off
because they found out you were sharing it... Additionally, there is
always some risk incurred in using a network that you don't know the
provenance of.
Looking at it from a user's perspective, hopping onto someone's AP can
be hazardous because you don't know if it's a boobytrap or not. How
many wireless APs pop up during DefCon that have the same ESSID as the
hotel they're set up in? Lots.
Didn't we talk about this as IS4CWN in 2012? US community wireless
networks vs. the rest of the planet?
it is easier for them to participate. The second group
of people
are people who need Internet access, so again they have some reason
for using it, even if it might be a black box for them. It works,
this is good enough for most of them. But then some start learning
and hacking and want to learn more.
In our experience, people started using the black box when they
understood that it was set up for them, and intended for them to use.
When it's less unknown it's often seen as safer, and more likely to
be used.
What would you say is the main reason why people
participate in
Byzantium project? Because they have personal need they want to
address? Or because they want to do something for others? Or
because they want to learn something?
Most of the contact we've gotten was from activists who were actively
setting up meshes for that purpose. Emergencies, unrest, disaster
preparation, things like that. Very few people for the second. About
as many people for the third as the second.
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