[Battlemesh] HK bluetooth mesh app

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Our understanding from looking at it, and talking with other mesh comms
groups is that it was never really very capable. Once they got VC funding,
it basically went internet-only for all practical purposes, is my (possibly
mistaken) understanding. Happy for someone to jump in an correct me if I am
wrong.

Paul.

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 15:09, Paul Fuxjäger <paul.fuxjaeger at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > http://mitar.tnode.com/
> > https://twitter.com/mitar_m
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