[Hackupy-discuss] Dovetail protester communications system

[Joshua Marker]

A a friend-of-a-friend contacted  me about a project she calls 'dovetail'. It's a peer-to-peer message transfer system designed to route messages without reliance on cell phone networks/etc - eg, when cities or governments shut them down to prevent protesters communicating. It uses adhoc wifi and bluetooth to flip messages around. 

Good idea, I was surprised it didn't exist. They're raising money with a kickstarter to get it done - they're serious people, I think UN/etc NGO level stuff, but the idea of needing that much money to write this seemed absurd to me. It sounded like something Hackupy would do in a few evenings. I told her so. She's interested in talking to someone at NB/Hackupy/anyone about it. Anyone interested? 

Details:

http://www.dovetailproject.org/


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