RE: Julian Assange needs everyone's protection: Here's how we might be able to help

[builderofcastles]

The problem with this plan is they cut off the internet to the area. So, the watch has no where to communicate to.

I will gladly put my full resources into a plan to have unblockable internet everywhere to everyone on the planet.

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[lovejoy]

yes, who will build the first graphene mesh net!?!

[faddat]

@lovejoy

1. Does your handle have anything to do with the lovejoy neighborhood of Buffalo, NY? If so, Awesome. If no, damn.
2. I don't think you'd actually want a "graphene mesh net." Graphene does a certain set of things, and it does them very well. There are other tools for meshes, and they do meshes very well. They only really tend to screw up when they cross over into the other side's turf.......

[builderofcastles]

Yes, I am thinking of a mesh network. But, I do not know of any that scale well to a million nodes, or more like a billion nodes.

Anyone have ideas how to work a net with 100,000 visible nodes, and probably as little as 10 hopes to anywhere in the world?

[faddat]

You would need to have many more than 100k nodes. The way to build such a thing is to build a wired core using fiber and wireless edges.

If you use today's radio standards, then you would either need to encroach on the bandwidth set aside for LTE or have about a billion nodes using 2.4g wifi. Other solutions include satellites (but these tend to be high latency and not as reliable as needed) or terrestrial SDN.

And... Well what we are really discussing is building a new internet, so why not start with our traditional pal, tcp/ip?

It is a steadfast protocol...

[faddat]

@builderofcastles

Did they?

Are you sure? That's terribly hard to do in an urban area (but not impossible, and not outside the reach of UK.gov... however supposedly Ecuador did this, NOT uk.gov. It'd be illegal and really, really hard for ecuador to shut down 4g to an area of London.

But, I'll rule nothing out.

[builderofcastles]

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[faddat]

Okay, so Ecuador shut down his internet link.... but we really don't know what that means, do we? And actually, that's definitely a problem with this plan to help him out. I feel bad for the guy I start to go crazy after a few hours disconnected, he's got to be positively losing his shit.

[twitterbot]

WikiLeaks tweeted @ 17 Oct 2016 - 05:33 UTC

Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans.

Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.

[builderofcastles]

Thanks twitterbot, that was helpful!