To add, if you do encrypt it, always use a password or passcode, because they cannot legally compel you to divulge the content of your own mind (at least in the USA... for now) while if you use a fingerprint or facial scan, they are totally allowed to force you to show your face or use your fingerprint to open it.

It would be really helpful/cool if people got into building LoRa swarms of small texting devices for such events.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LoRa swarms of small texting devices for such events

I wasn't able to easily find any articles or sites that explain this ... any recommendations on where one could read about this more?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here's a proof of concept from 2023: https://msglab.co/project/lo-ra-msg

There's others as well, and as this project notes a lot of the underlying code is a mishmash and generally unfinished and buggy.

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

Meshtastic is another fantastic LoRa network project.

Edit: here's another

https://www.tindie.com/products/bobricius/armachat-meshtastic-compatible-lora-messenger/