[137717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Feb 18 11:25:06 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D5E7736.2050508@tonal.clara.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:23:29 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> The fact that the usable bandwidth resulting from ad-hoc mesh wiki would be
> tiny compared to broadband connections doesn't mean this sort of thing isn't
> worth trying: a few tens of kilobits a second is plenty for speech, and even
> a few hundred bits per second useful for basic text messaging.
it seemed that the 'freedombox' was targeted at (or so I thought from
the snippet I read) striking a blow against regimes that cut off
network access during 'high stress' periods. A few kbps would still be
better than nothing :)
of course, a coffee grinder (or something more sophisticated that'd be
available to the repressive regime du jour) can wipe out that few kbps
easily enough as well.
-chris
