[Battlemesh] HK bluetooth mesh app

[Paul Fuxjäger]

I remember talking to someone in 2015 who was on the firechat dev team:

According to that dev, the claim of it “being successfully used by protesters” was a PR gag :(

Which I don’t really mind if it makes everybody install it and thus increases node density. But it should then also provide the advertised functionality - which firechat seemed to have failed to do back then.

> On 03.09.2019, at 20:10, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Reminds me of FireChat:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
> 
> It was used in 2014 Hong Kong protests. :-)
> 
> But it is really hard to get any information about how secure those apps
> really are.
> 
> One open source I know about is:
> 
> http://www.denovogroup.org/rangzen
> 
> More or less the same people also wrote:
> 
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci13/workshop-program/presentation/hasan
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685
>> 
>> Seems proprietary though, but the use case is interesting.
>> 
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