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Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by mothballed »

big-and-small wrote: post #51
jabroni_salad wrote: post #45

This will be very interesting if they can conquer the distribution issue. During the Hong Kong protests I recall several such solutions were created, but the dominant thing ended up being airdrop because it is what so many people already had locked and loaded.

Another problem is what happens when police stop to search you. You don't want to have "please beat me dead" app installed when it's happens.

If goons are killing you for having an app you don't need more apps, you need a gun.

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by wahnfrieden »

dodomodo wrote: post #70
immibis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK they used to have internet, but Israel clamped down on it more and more, at the same time they shot as many journalists as they could. Has there been anything out of Gaza in ages?

what are you talking about about? they have internet and the they had it 99% of the time during the war.

You make it sound like it's ubiquitous and constant. Just to clarify what access means:

From Wikipedia:

> By December 2023 200,000 people living in Gaza (around 10% of the population) had received internet access through an eSIM.

> As of August 2024, according to a Palestinian source, over 70% of telecommunications have been rendered inoperable. As of June 2025, Paltel is still providing some internet and landline telephone services in southern Gaza. There have been at least 10 outages since the conflict began. The lack of reliable telecommunications has hampered efforts by first responders and humanitarian groups.

From the above it sounds like maybe 3% of the population have access (as of a year ago), and there are regular outages. It also says that access has been insufficient.

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by cultofmetatron »

whats going to happen when adversarial entities perform a supply chain attack and booby trap these devices with c4 and kill all the users (men, women and children). we already know there are parties that are perfectly happy to make no distinction when killing them.

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by perching_aix »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #76

whats going to happen when adversarial entities perform a supply chain attack and booby trap these devices with c4 and kill all the users (men, women and children). we already know there are parties that are perfectly happy to make no distinction when killing them.

> and booby trap these devices with c4

bit-chat is a piece of software, it's not a hardware device

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

#78

Post by cultofmetatron »

boxerab wrote: post #73

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I'm just going to leave this here

per the associated press,

> In April 2022, there were 4,450 Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli prisons – including 160 children, 32 women, and over 1,000 "administrative detainees" (indefinitely incarcerated without charge).

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by vladgur »

immibis wrote: post #60
big-and-small wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another problem is what happens when police stop to search you. You don't want to have "please beat me dead" app installed when it's happens.

I think in these kinds of places they beat you dead for being the wrong skin colour if they're in a bad mood. I'm not sure how much your installed apps are relevant to the decision.

The "wrong skin color" is projection of western ideologies to Israel/Gaza conflict.

Israelis have lighter skin Ashkenazi Jews, darker skin Mizrahi Jews(majority of hte jews in Israel now) and black Ethiopian jews. And of course 20%+ Arabs living in the country.

Gazan Palestinians skin color varies as well, some have light skin, while others have darker skin tones.

For example, does this woman have the right skin color or the wrong one:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ah...

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