In <9309150353.AA06198@ellisun.sw.stratus.com>, Carl Ellison wrote...
There are alternatives to spread spectrum, if we're threatened with loss of freedom to communicate.
We could lay our own wires/fibers.
Well, we'd like crypto for the masses and I don't think that the masses are yet ready to put out the bucks for spread spectrum boards and infrared laser communications gear... It'd be really nice to have such a decentralized network, though.
We could set up a mesh network of infrared lasers through the air. Last time I looked, there were no laws against shining lights out your window as long as they didn't bother anyone. An infrared laser could hardly bother anyone.
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very low range radio, .... Each card would connect to three or more neighbors and become part of the global mesh. Adaptive routing with no global map would suffice for the card and would keep the whole system peer-to-peer with no need for central control and no chance for central tapping.
This would be the perfect network in which to deploy DC nets.... (dining cryptographers). ;; __________________________________________________________________________ ;; Stig@netcom.com netcom.com:/pub/stig/00-PGP-KEY ;; It's hard to be cutting-edge at your own pace... 32 DF B9 19 AE 28 D1 7A ;; Bullet-proof code cannot stand up to teflon bugs. A3 9D 0B 1A 33 13 4D 7F