On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:11 AM grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com>
   wrote:

     On 2/10/16, Ted Smith <[2]tedks@riseup.net> wrote:
     > I'm a little skeptical of wireless mesh networks as a general
     solution
     > to this sort of problem, because they're inherently chatty, and
     have
     > very limited reach.
     >
     > I think a better solution is local wired networks with something
     like
     > Freenet running over them providing distributed censorship-proof
     The cost of wiring to your neighbor is similar to wireless, yet
     wired
     will always perform better, is vastly more private and tap evident.
     Use wireless for shots where you cant secure legit or guerrilla
     wired rights. Performance matters when the airwaves are
     full of noise and you're running layers of required overlay routing
     /
     crypto net / fill traffic over it, not to mention your data.

   Your immediate next door neighbor, yes. But forget crossing a street or
   wiring the house two doors down if your immediate neighbor doesn't
   agree. One should definitely use wired links when possible, but this
   problem is why the telcos and cable companies are able to maintain
   their local monopolies/oligopolies.

     > storage. The next challenge is to synchronize contents between
     local
     > Freenet darknets over sneakernet, which I don't think has been
     done.
     If the network filestore overlay splits and spreads random blocks
     across nodes, sneakernet will just add random avg replication,
     afaik no networks or storage have that capability to plugin?
     Of course if you trust the anonymity of your overlays,
     anyone can host unsplit copies of anything they want.
     Then, other than again needing a network with a plugin
     capable datastore, if it's not encrypted unknown to you,
     you'd have to trust getting it in person, which probably rightly
     isn't going to happen unless you're already BOFs with MAD.

   Sneakernet replication is an interesting option if your goal is to be
   hyper-local and disconnected, like a micropower FM station or
   something. There are villages in Africa that send and receive email
   using a similar system, where a van with a server and wifi drives from
   village to village, exchanging files with a local village server using
   something akin to UUCP, or the van itself acts as a hotspot for
   villages without a local server. Could do the same thing with
   attribution-resistant bootleg servers planted in stealthy locations.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. mailto:tedks@riseup.net