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

submitted 9 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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 6 hours ago

...they could probably rove around finding people with these stations.

True, though the benefit of these and other kinds of community-run decentralized networks is that it becomes harder to disrupt those networks. It's not impossible, but they're often built around an idea of, "But what if this node goes down?" so they have ways to address those issues or make it so that it's easy to deploy new nodes.

Still, if things are to the point that the government is cracking down on hobbyist radios, you've probably got lots to consider regarding the best ways to communicate with other dissidents and activists.