I'd rather send them a letter.

Disgusting, who are these people, do they let children run these places now

No, you keep the private key. They are private.

How to SSH: I add your public key to my authorized_hosts file, now you can connect to me over SSH because your public key has been authorised. From the SSH session you can edit or read text files.

Bonus: SSH chatroom! Ages ago I made a very short bash script to turn it into a chatroom for my own amusement. Top half of the screen is just running "watch cat chatlog", watch is to run it repeatedly, cat chatlog just prints the content of the text file. Then the bottom half you use to add new lines to the text file.

They meant that they're leaving the text file on their own desktop. So they're expecting the owner of the public key to log in, and have therefore added them to their .ssh/authorized_keys file

Meshcore, like Meshtastic, is a text messaging service built on top of LoRa. In the United States, LoRa is 900MHz UHF low power radio, intended for low bandwidth telemetry. There's an entire class of nerds using it to ask if anyone can hear them and get no reply.

If you want TCP encrypted messaging with radio capability, check out https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

It's TCP/Bluetooth/serial/HaLow/LORA, any interface that python has drivers for.

It has messaging protocols LXMF, It has a web browser like app called NomadNet, some browsers like Columba add on LXST telephony, People have written Chat clients, Git Clients, Proxies, VPNS,

To clear things up:

Meshtastic is really peer to peer and dead simple, but also almost no extra features.

Meshcore is setup to be routed. You setup mailbox server and routers and create your own backbone, good for a community and more reliable than meshtastic, but also requires more design so there's less of a chance of talking to people if youre in a sparse area.

Reticulum can use R-Nodes, (same hardware as meshtastic/core) but the rnodes are way less frequently found than tastic/core. (i've never found reticulum over radio in the wild)

There is a messy radio issue to Meshcore, Meshtastic and Reticulum at least in the US, they're using a very narrow band with their spread spectrum to get distance and it's against FCC regs even in the free ISM bands.

what you are looking for is Nomadnet, thats basically internet without the internet

So what is its security vulnerability?

it's from cicada3301 in 2012 https://github.com/scream314/cicada3301/blob/master/2012.md

this image It's the proper form of the onion 1/2 https://github.com/scream314/cicada3301/blob/master/2013.md

the whole thing appears to be a privacy tool recuitment thing

People who finished the 2012 round were asked a few ideological questions, such as whether they believed in freedom of information and privacy and opposed censorship, and were told to work alone. Marcus Wanner, a 2012 finalist who spoke publicly, said the group described itself as working on privacy and anti-surveillance tools, and that finalists were invited to a private forum to collaborate on projects in that direction. He said it fizzled out without much happening, at least for him.

Cicada 3301.

I was there, I was a Computer Science student & they were really cool to solve. I loved that because I had done similar puzzles &/or hackaton time challenges. 2010-2020 was a good era for those.

Now everything is obfuscation by volume, such a stupidly high amount of output that only a machine can keep up wish.

the internet i think

You can make it happen.

smoke

Actually, they somewhat recently added phone numberless registration. It does require a $2.99 fee however, apparently to prevent abuse.

Or XMPP, if configured correctly. There are others as well.

Yeah fuck phone number based services! Tho i would like to mention, matrix isnt the only service thats private, take a look at reticulum for example.

Ive been using Disroot conversations. No phone number required

What do you think of SimplexChat? It does not require a phone number or account setup and you share single use links to set up a chat so there's no identifiers that can be traced back to you. I've been using it with my friends for years now. It has some reliability issues but you can even host your own server if you want full control.

Same. Got my parents on it. I recommend it to everyone.

My man/girl/bean.

The swiss have a bad track record when it comes to encrypted communications

Be carefull the spy sats still can read your lips, better only talk naked underwater with sign language

this is more a self reflection of my journey into isolation thru the means of getting increasingly harder to reach as i switch to more obscures means of communication

yeah it was that second thing about telegram being better than WhatsApp.

i guess it makes sense itd be by ease of use but I think seeing mesh core threw me off

It's an interesting story. I had never heard of it before I ran into this guy at a flea market. He had manufactured these cool little fixed-frequency transmitters, and he said they were intended to be used with JS8CALL, being set to that 3.580 color burst frequency. I tried many times to get things working but they didn't do anything! After SO MUCH trial and error, we determined that the JS8CALL program could not even bring up the audio interface correctly, nor send or receive any data through it. Not with these little guys, or my big HF radio which I know works reliably. Just bizarre man. I haven't given it a go since.

Except the meschore app is closed source, or only partially open. If I remember correctly.

From 2015: https://www.vice.com/en/article/even-the-inventor-of-pgp-doesnt-use-pgp/

Maybe I've just always been a rude, old curmudgeon, but I swear it's not just me that hated it. We're in a group chat about dinner bro, either give us your number or don't come. No one is going to send you the details separately.