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

submitted 10 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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[–] sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago

A major remaining issue with Meshtastic is the NodeID being tied to the device MAC. This means that even if you can't decrypt comms, it is trivial to track a device and thereby a user across geographical areas even with factory resets. This is solvable at a software level and iirc there's a PR to address this vulnerability, but it has not been merged.