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betterangels / buoy

:sos: A community-based crisis response system. Because friends don't let friends call the cops. :fire::police_car::fire:
https://betterangels.github.io/buoy/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Explore opportunities to utilize mesh networking for responders and/or alerters #71

Open fabacab opened 8 years ago

fabacab commented 8 years ago

A key feature of Lifeboat should be that it works well even without access to the capital-i Internet. Internet access is unlikely to be reliable in a disaster, for example, but also vulnerable to censorship and/or eavesdropping during protests or even targeted attacks (see Stingrays, for example).

One promising workaround is mesh networking, the ability to create a network in a peer-to-peer fashion using traditional internet technologies. Free software such as Serval exists on all major platforms for this purpose.

Lifeboat should be able to utilize this form of ad-hoc connectivity in addition to traditionally centralized Internet backbone architecture to receive and send alerts.

A farther-future version of Lifeboat could bundle a slimmed-down WordPress plus HTTP daemon and carry along its own Buoy "server," not just a client. This would effectively make each Lifeboat user their own Buoy as well, enabling their device to serve as a Buoy in a disaster situation where there is no Internet access for anyone at all, effectively creating an ad-hoc Buoy server for the survivors of a disaster or who have been kettled by cops and are forcibly disconnected from the canonical Internet.

This scenario depends on first accomplishing betterangels/buoy#17 and switching to OpenStreetMaps away from Google Maps, since the former allows offline caching of map tiles. (And also fuck Google.)

fabacab commented 8 years ago

Another thing to look into is goTenna Mesh and its SDK.

fabacab commented 7 years ago

Yet another is LDLN.