Comments | tlttlotd: Where have I been?

tlttlotd

Where have I been?

Oct 16, 2011 23:04

Everywhere. But you knew that.

I don't have a lot of time right now, so here's my life that's not work or moving in a nutshell.

I've been working on this since February of 2011.

I'll be going here in a few days' time and presenting on Project Byzantium as well as tools used by activists to protect their privacy and anonymity as well as organize ( Read more... )

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adept October 17 2011, 14:52:32 UTC

How are you getting to the city? If it's driving, we could meet up in Jersey on your way there or back. I'm unemployed at the moment, so days/times are not a problem but distances from home could be.

tlttlotd October 17 2011, 22:27:45 UTC

I'll be taking a train up to New York on Wednesday morning, and leaving Friday afternoon.

Yes, yes I would. arxacies October 17 2011, 21:41:16 UTC

I have something that belongs to you. Would you prefer to discuss details over e-mail?

Re: Yes, yes I would. tlttlotd October 17 2011, 22:27:59 UTC

Sure. You have my e-mail address?

Re: Yes, yes I would. arxacies October 17 2011, 22:37:15 UTC

I don't, but I just sent you a message via facebook. I thought I had it.

kitten_goddess October 18 2011, 00:45:47 UTC

I read your document on Project Byzantium. It is a very laudable and important project, especially in the age of peak oil, peak uranium, etc. We may face a situation where we can no longer manufacture the components necessary to enable the Internet to run.

Two questions:

1. What is a mesh network protocol? I'm not familiar with that term.

2. Would Project Byzantium be able to work if conventional materials are no longer available to build hardware?

tlttlotd October 18 2011, 01:07:48 UTC

1) A mesh network protocol is a wireless traffic routing protocol in which there are no access points plugged into a network that clients rely upon. If the local network infrastructure goes down, access points won't be able to send or receive traffic from the global Net. A mesh routing protocol (we're using Babel) allows computers to bounce traffic from wireless node to wireless node until it reaches its destination. It basically cuts the commercial network infrastructure out of the picture.

2) If there are no computers with wi-fi, we'd be pretty much out of luck.