[Freedombox-discuss] Routing around nationwide and international Internet blocks

[Anthony Papillion]

On 02/27/2011 04:27 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
> The only solution I can think of for this is a modular hardware design
> at the physical level that allows for pluggable communication devices. 
> Then allow individual groups to play with laser links, packet radio, gsm
> / whatever in software defined radio.
> 
> The problem is mesh networking tends to not work well legally outside of
> 802.xx standards and 2.4 ghz.
> 
> The plugs people have been discussing do not address these fundamental
> needs.  I think that many members of this group are not concerned with
> this feature set.
> 
> -Matt

Hi Matt,

I think you're right, there probably isn't a lot of interests in this
feature within the group but I think it greatly limits a lot of the
Freedom Box's utility. Of course, simply facilitating in-country
communication IS very important and could easily be used to frustrate
organized government efforts to stop demonstrations being organized or
information being disseminated to interested parties within a particular
country.

Still, I'd like to see the 'what happens at the border' question
addressed to some degree. Thinking about it for a moment though, I
suppose the answer to that would be outside of the purview of this group
as it would involve communication technologies that wouldn't be directly
addressable by the Freedom Box. So maybe it is a non-issue for the
project. I'll have to think about it a bit.

Thanks for the input. This project is pretty awesome!

Anthony