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Are LoRa networks a way around the surveillance state? (lemmy.world)

submitted 14 hours ago by brownsugga@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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I’ve recently discovered meshtastic and related tech. With the trust vacuum around cell phones and data scraping and tracking etc, I basically assume the government et al can see what’s up on my iphone constantly.

For interpersonal communication regarding civil disobedience, protest, resistance etc-- do LoRa devices offer an actual solution? or am I very mistaken?

I’m posting from a laptop that I converted to Linux (not tech savvy so that was a project) from behind a VPN- genuinely looking to hear from smarter people than me regarding privacy and secure communication

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The data rates it can work at are very low compared to what most people are used to in terms of data transmission. It's not really a general replacement for wireless data networks for most people.

https://www.rfwireless-world.com/terminology/lorawan-spreading-factor-range-data-rate

For the US:

For comparison, a plain old telephone system (POTS) analog modem might do 56 kilobits per second, more than double the highest data rate there.

It might be possible to create some sort of zero-maintenance public-access mesh wireless network that could start to approach something like an alternative for what people do with smartphones today, but if so, my guess is that it's going to be done using hardware that uses something like self-aligning point-to-point laser links to tie together the nodes.

EDIT:

https://meshmap.net/

Those links, like.