Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
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Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#2is there any open source alternative to firechat (https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/), which seems to now require internet account creation prior to use?
something imbued with cryptography that communicates purely via local peer discovery/hopping such as wifi/bluetooth/optical signaling, etc.
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#3I remember getting bluetooth spam in Chinese malls like 10 years ago.
Used to be near impossible to walk around with bluetooth on, then the popularity of Android and Iphone (both of which don't support obex or obex ftp) quickly drove popularity of spam devices to nil
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#4Worth mentioning in case anyone in HongKong or China needs it: Streisand can help you set up a VPN to avoid censoring[1]
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#5I remember getting bluetooth spam in Chinese malls like 10 years ago. Used to be near impossible to walk around with bluetooth on, then the popularity of Android and Iphone (both of which don't support obex or obex ftp) quickly drove popularity of spam devices to nil
I knew a Panasonic guy who worked in Shenzhen. He worked on their Android phones.
I recall he was complaining how Google was vehemently opposed to any kind of "mainlining" IrDA support in Android. He says that Google was ok to support a semistandard API for IrDA just for the Japanese market under agreement that Panasonic would not market such phones outside Japan.
Panasonic laobans scratched their heads for a minute, and sput on that request, deciding to move with their own, self supported APIs.
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#6Worth mentioning in case anyone in HongKong or China needs it: Streisand can help you set up a VPN to avoid censoring[1] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Isn't naming an anti censorship tool "streisand" similar to naming an anti-facism tool "hitler"?
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#7Um, Hong Kong is OUTSIDE the Chinese firewall (for now)
More likely they are doing this to preserve anonymity
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#8Seems like a click bait article, there's no China firewall in Hong Kong and plenty of free Wifi spots.
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#9Worth mentioning in case anyone in HongKong or China needs it: Streisand can help you set up a VPN to avoid censoring[1] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Isn't naming an anti censorship tool "streisand" similar to naming an anti-facism tool "hitler"?
Only if Hitler had tried but failed at fascism and inadvertently made people more free instead.
Re: Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors
#10Worth mentioning in case anyone in HongKong or China needs it: Streisand can help you set up a VPN to avoid censoring[1] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Isn't naming an anti censorship tool "streisand" similar to naming an anti-facism tool "hitler"?
Not really. Streisand Effect is defined as "a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely."[0], so it seems to fit perfectly