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The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by aspenmayer »

Pfhortune wrote: post #26
aspenmayer wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cuba's meshnet system Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/

Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing! I think Cuba is ahead of the curve here, considering the direction the internet is going these days WRT encroaching censorship and media availability issues.

I was most surprised to discover that the Cuban government releases its own version. I’m curious about the differences/additions between the “official” release and the pirate one. I can only speculate, but I would assume that the sanctioned one is likely to be instrumented and censored, possibly even with malware. The pirate site is blocked by my adblocker also, so it may not be any safer in that regard. I wonder if anyone has studied it.

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by hanniabu »

rl3 wrote: post #21
solarpunk wrote: post #5

this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system. i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results.

> i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results. The eSIM stuff terrifies me, because you know damn well they're feeding that data into their intelligence apparatus for targeting purposes, and recent history has shown thus far that they don't give much of a shit about collateral damage. I highly suspect that nearby cellular activity increases the chances of be…

What about Briar

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by maybelsyrup »

> the telecommunications infrastructure has been severely damaged

Distal to the tech here but man, once you see the passive voice vs active voice stuff on this issue, you really can't un-see it. Astounding.

Edit: finished the article. The tech here really is stunning -- like, the ratio of ingenuity to resources is insane.

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by dexwiz »

rl3 wrote: post #21
solarpunk wrote: post #5

this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system. i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results.

> i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results. The eSIM stuff terrifies me, because you know damn well they're feeding that data into their intelligence apparatus for targeting purposes, and recent history has shown thus far that they don't give much of a shit about collateral damage. I highly suspect that nearby cellular activity increases the chances of be…

Can eSIM run programs isolated from the host device like normal SIM?

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

throw0320 wrote: post #28

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Yes I think if the walls between Gaza and Israel came down it would be a moment like the taking down of the Berlin wall. Two people, ruled by the same government, finally experiencing the same rights, same freedoms, same status, etc.

How to tear down that wall without the extremists trying to kill their "enemies" on each side first, that no one has the answer to

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

rl3 wrote: post #21
solarpunk wrote: post #5

this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system. i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results.

> i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was going, this seems to be one of the results. The eSIM stuff terrifies me, because you know damn well they're feeding that data into their intelligence apparatus for targeting purposes, and recent history has shown thus far that they don't give much of a shit about collateral damage. I highly suspect that nearby cellular activity increases the chances of be…

They just point an AI at them and let it decide who to bomb, no joke, this is literally what happens. Before AGI we are already living in Minority Report...

Re: The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

dmbche wrote: post #13

It's not extremely clear to me - they manage to put phones with Esim where there is signal and set up a hotspot for other phones? Or do they maintain hotspots near the border for the people in Gaza to conect to? Or a mix of both?

Yes essentially they put the phones up high enough to get Israeli or Egyptian signal (since Israel shut off the Palestinian one), then the phone uses its hotspot to connect to nearby phones.
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