To be fair, China doesn't block access to any websites in Hong Kong. In a sense, it's a freer internet than in the US (zero sites blocked, plus piracy is allowed).
Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
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Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#52Hi everybody, I'm Jorge, founder of Bridgefy. Happy to answer any questions!
Hi Jorge, fyi I just browsed for Bridgefy on google and clicked on the first link that showed up and some random page turned up. It looked like it was hacked or something.
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#53If worst comes to worst, I hope there's satellite connectivity to HK. Or landlines not under Chinese jurisdiction. EDIT: To clarify, I'm concerned about what could happen if China cuts HK off from the Internet.
China can't cut HK off from the internet. Almost all Chinese internet traffic is routed through Hong Kong, not the other way around.
so then HK could do...to china
Hmm I think someone is in jeopardy but neither side has realized exactly who yet.
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This burner phone and your "real" phone are going to be easy to correlate retroactively based on the towers they are both hitting
Hopefully OP uses a different cell network than the one Simple Mobile rides atop.
This kind of device matching can be done across any of the carriers or their MVNOs, all of them give up the data when asked by a government entity. Many tower locations will even be identical across carriers, making the matching even easier.
Also this correlation could be done with stingray towers without bringing the cell carriers into the loop.
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#55Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#56Hi everybody, I'm Jorge, founder of Bridgefy. Happy to answer any questions!
Hi Jorge,
Pardon my ignorance but lets say that someone runs a typical cell phone jammer in the area, would that block the Bluetooth signal from working or are RF wavelengths not able to be jammed?
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#57I just tried the app via the US App Store and it requires you to verify through SMS before use. This means that it’s neither anonymous nor fit for use in a disaster zone. Good example of software that would be better if open source.
Hi! You can skip the SMS verification step, which is how thousands of people have used it after earthquakes and hurricanes :) we also have an SDK so that developer can create their own app and make it work however they want.
how do you skip verification? after hitting the cancel button the start screen shows again
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#58The Hong Kongers would never get away with what they are doing to the police in the United States.
That’s why I find it so funny the are waving US flags, along with Pepe the Frog flags. If they tried throwing Molotov cocktails at US cops, the outcome would be very different.
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#59If worst comes to worst, I hope there's satellite connectivity to HK. Or landlines not under Chinese jurisdiction. EDIT: To clarify, I'm concerned about what could happen if China cuts HK off from the Internet.
Seeing how well it’s working for Indoa in Kashmir, I”m surprised China hasn’t done it by now.
Re: Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
#60I just tried the app via the US App Store and it requires you to verify through SMS before use. This means that it’s neither anonymous nor fit for use in a disaster zone. Good example of software that would be better if open source.
Next step, Chinese intelligence hacks their database of verified phone numbers. Anonymity over. Having the resources of a nation state, they could probably do it easily.