Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ...
by pshc on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:04PM
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No idea if this is practical, but I wonder people living on either side of the river could set up some kind of laser-based point-to-point pipe that would be nearly undetectable unless you knew exactly where it was?
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Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ...
by derrick_jensen on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:29PM
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it might be easier to have some sort of point to point packet radio setup. Wouldn't be as fast, but would probably be more reliable and the infrastructure/tooling is already in place to do this.
Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ...
by woah on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:05PM
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There is, of course, a wide range of commercially available wireless ISP hardware, most of it made right there in China. It would be easy to set up many gigabit links.
But it’s very easy to detect and home in on radios and the government wouldn’t take kindly to it. Lasers have the advantage that they are hard to detect if you’re not in the beam.