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Maybe the Chinese government wouldn't, but the people would care, a lot. The Chinese government is perpetually afraid of revolution and rebellion.
Do mainland Chinese really use that much of the global Internet?
I 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.
Is there any software that would be worse when open source?
No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better. I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source serval mesh project apk and ios app. [1] In Hong Kong given the density of building it's bit hard to have a line of sight, so it will still be hard to build a local network. But it's…
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Or join as a malicious node. There is no panacea without control over some infrastructure.
For something as low latency as messaging, you can probably use proof of work for DoS resistance
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Maybe the Chinese government wouldn't, but the people would care, a lot. The Chinese government is perpetually afraid of revolution and rebellion.
Do mainland Chinese really use that much of the global Internet?
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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.
Or join as a malicious node. There is no panacea without control over some infrastructure.
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They still can cut off the consumers ISP and leave commercial untouched.
Let's take it a step further, and imagine a complete Internet blackout in HK, both consumer and commercial, even if just for a day or a week. I'm thinking up scenarios of how China can do a modern Tianamen and get away with it. I'd be happy to conclude that it isn't possible, but I'm not sure if I might be forgetting something...
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That's exactly how Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed: using two laser guided missiles while he spoke on sat phone. The signal was interceped by a Russian reconaissance aircraft.
This tactic has been used a number of times that I'm aware of, in Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East.
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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.
That's not really a thing. Some far-right groups sent provocateurs and livestream grifters on an all expenses paid trip to HK to cash in on 'anti communist protests' but their efforts fell flat after HKers were advised of their identities.
Gibson has since been indicted for felony riot which can carry a term of up 5 years, incidentally.
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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.
With the higher clustered protestors the tower linking won't be as identifiable as you might think.