[Hackupy-discuss] Dovetail protester communications system

[Gladys Regalado]

This is interesting and timely for us here in the Philippines. Just
yesterday the government ordered the country's two leading telephone
companies<http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=766453&publicationSubCategoryId=63>(we
fondly call telcos) to suspend
mobile services<http://noelcolina.tumblr.com/post/15561266667/kill-switch-turned-on-today>in
areas around the huge Black Nazarene procession. If they can use
"terrorist threats" to shut down services on a religious procession, they
can easily do this again on protest actions.

Sorry, I have no experience and can't do much on app development. But I'm
volunteering to run tests once the alpha version is up.

Gladys

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Joshua Marker <joshua at nowhereville.org>wrote:

> 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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