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Off-The-Grid Text Messaging: No Need For WIFI Or Data Plan (Video)
By: Jeff Paul | Coinivore –
Open Garden wants you to forget SMS and IM and go with OM — off-the-grid messaging — using their peer-to-peer mesh network.
“Forget SMS and IM, here comes OM (off-the-grid messaging)…FireChat creates a new way to communicate with our phones that does not require a data plan or even a network,” they declare on a new video released today.
Open Garden’s encrypted texting app FireChat allows private messaging to groups or individuals without an Internet connection. The app has become popular at protests when authorities try to shut down or spy on centralized channels of communication.
The new video clearly explains how mesh networks work without WIFI or cell service plans, and how it gains in speed, strength and usefulness as more users are added.
If they grow large enough, decentralized mesh networks like these may one day replace how we access the Internet, making current Internet service providers (ISP) obsolete.
The article Off-The-Grid Text Messaging: No Need For WIFI Or Data Plan (VIDEO) published by TheSleuthJournal – Real News Without Synthetics
Source: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/off-the-grid-text-messaging-no-need-for-wifi-or-data-plan-video/
What ever happened to old school phone calls where you actually speak to someone? Or write a letter on a piece of paper. Try a CB radio or smoke signals. Carrier pigeon perhaps. Or get up off your fat arse and visit them.
Generation gap.
Any communication needing more than a small fire and a wet manatee pelt is bloat.
this sounds too paranoid and complicated… if you are already off the grid… why would you think the government is still spying on you.
Sounds like it’s just an app. Real question is whether to trust its encryption, and whether enough people are using it for it to be useful.
I’m not sure I understand your point. They provide a way to text message while being off the grid.
Some stalker of jilted lover could use this to stalk on you
Eat More GMO