Comment by DonsDiscountGas

4 months ago

What's the use case? I'm assuming one is trying to send a message to someone far away so it seems like the alternatives wouldn't necessarily help.

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rsolva  4 months ago

Other phones with Briar installed can carry your (encrypted) messages, as in a game of whisper. This works best if enough people between you and the recipient had Briar installed ... but most people don't.

But I see how this feature could be very helpful if a state shuts down internet connectivity or during war or a natural catastrophe. The nifty thing is that the app can be shared from one device to another, so you are not dependent on having the app in advance of an emergency.

Ideally, everyone should have this installed as an insurance :)

  • 7373737373  4 months ago

    > This works best if enough people between you and the recipient had [...] installed ... but most people don't.

    Which is why it would be nice if operating systems already included such functionality

  • Velocifyer  4 months ago

    This is not true, unless you are all in one big fourm or you have a chain of shared blogs. I think they are woried about metadata privacy or people using this to do a DoS.

  • N2yhWNXQN3k9  4 months ago

    > Other phones with Briar installed can carry your (encrypted) messages

    Sounds like an excellent target for DoS

    • genewitch  4 months ago

      Someone not participating in briar or the DoS can use fing (android app) or a signal strength meter (handheld, I have 2, personally) to direction find and triangulate the person sending the traffic. Hence $5 lead pipe.

      and by "someone" i mean "any android cellphone"

beefnugs  4 months ago

A bunch of countries turn off the internet at the first sign of protests, hell sometimes they just turn it off to stop "a bunch of college kids from cheating during test week"

Coming to a country near you soon