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Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by norswap on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:19AM (#6178233)
Could someone clarify what the purpose of a meshnet is? Only encryption of all the contents? Or also hiding who talks to who? That last one seems quite difficult to achieve to me, in the presence of an attacker that permeates the network (the internet).
Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by hansjorg on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:29AM (#6178255)
The main purpose is to have a network without depending on a central ISP.

A good example of a sizable meshnet is the Athens Wireless Metropolitan[1] network which has more than a thousand backbone nodes.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Ne...

Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by norswap on Thursday August 08, 2013 @09:51AM (#6178883)
Ah, I missed the point that this network would eschew the internet totally. I now realize that the top comment and even the excerpt say exactly that.
Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by 16s on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:30AM (#6178256)
No central control. Point to point. It's like amateur radio communication where two people can talk directly with each other radio to radio.
Re:Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch by gioele on Thursday August 08, 2013 @08:41AM (#6178504)
Isn't this the whole point behind Internet and IP?