Comment by 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
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
Right but Bluetooth and local Wi-Fi are very short range so it doesn't actually solve that problem
It does if you consider that everyone can act as a relay.
This is also how apple airtags can be find anywhere there's an iphone users nearby.
> It does if you consider that everyone can act as a relay.
Let's think this through. Imagine civil war breaks out in Australia, and communications infrastructure is destroyed or shut off. I'm in Sydney and want to transmit a message to a friend in Perth.
How exactly is "everyone acts as a relay" going to work? In particular, how is it going to scale when everyone in the country is trying to do the same things?
> This is also how apple airtags can be find anywhere there's an iphone users nearby.
This is incorrect. Airtags (and the Google version) communicate with nearby Internet-connected devices, via Bluetooth and NFC I think. Those nearby Internet-connected devices send the airtag's location to a server.
Nothing about this would work without the Internet.
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I haven't studied the protocol but that seems like it has some...obvious routing issues.
Airtags have a totally different architecture than what this protocol is describing, I think.
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