NEKLAN
June 27, 2020, 12:23am
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I don’t think this idea has been mentioned yet💬
I thought some people would use this project to ensure their privacy in the future from this topic etc.
With some of what’s going on in various parts of the world, secure comms are becoming a big issue. As soon as cellphones turn off Airplane Mode they are subject to leaking data via whatever apps they have installed and being unmasked by IMSI catchers which are now in widespread use. There is no way to keep the baseband modem and wifi disabled to any degree of certainty and Bluetooth powered on for Meshtastic. Being able to connect the TTGO or other similar hardware via USB OTG would allow users …
I fully trust @geeksville , I thought it would be smart if the SNS discussed in this topic could be used in the future to contact the person who report bug.
So some time ago @sam_uk proposed using riot.im instead of signal for the ‘internet’ messaging gateway. I just spent a bit of time to look into this and I think it is a really good idea. This will be implemented after 1.0 and it will be built on top of the “mesh to MQTT gateway” and a "MQTT to riot.im bridge (to use the riot dev’s terminology).
If you are interested in this topic, the current rough plan is here:
And by the magic of discourse linking any comments you make in this thread wil…
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