Title. Just imagine the possibilities of having your own “homemade internet”!

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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    1 month ago

    Not sure exactly what I would do with it either. It’s not meant for illegal activity, but I can see it being used they way. Properly secured it could be another dark web.

    I thought about it needing some kind of border protocol to manage locations and routes. One would need to come up with an address and probably a certificate.

    Regarding physical connections, I would say it’s easiest to use wireless. I personally wouldn’t want to advertise that my location is my network, so like the onion network I would like it to route away and double back.

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      1 month ago

      The problem with wifi is that things will go downhill quickly once you have too many stations online. Even if they’re not actively browsing, the normal amount of chatter that a network has will often just slow things right down. It would need to be split into smaller wifi networks linked somehow and that means someone needs to be in a central location that is easily traced.

      In theory I guess someone with a very fast connection could run a layer 2 VPN. Then you could all run a routing protocol over that network which is accessed over the internet.

      Lot’s of ways to do it really. Wifi alone is probably the worst though.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah, I was thinking more of having a dedicated border device, and limiting the number of neighbors. You would also have to trust you neighbors to run software that self assembles a network, especially in a crowded area.