<p>right now, Simon is being investigated by MI5 due to this very email ;)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2011 3:21 PM, "Simon Johnson" <<a href="mailto:simon.johnson@gmail.com">simon.johnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> One interesting suggestion I saw was store and forward using Bluetooth on Mobiles.<br>
> <br>> You'd have a program that would keep you Bluetooth connection promiscuous at all times and you'd transmit messages on behalf of other people, encrypted of course.<br>> <br>> The routing would be done by the web of trust on PGP. <br>
> <br>> Let's say Neil wants to transmit a message to Bob. If my PGP key signed Bob's key (which is a matter of public record) and I prove to the Neil's device that I own the key that did that signing, it would forward the encrypted message to me.<br>
> <br>> Finally, when I see Bob at the next LivLug, he would prove to my device he actually owns the master key and it would transmit the message to him which would then decrypt.<br>> <br>> Given the adage of "six degrees of separation" and the fact that many people on trains share the same space, this could be a very effective sneaker net .<br>
> <br>> It would be totally impossible to control too.<br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Bob Ham<br>
> Sent: 06 January 2011 22:50<br>> To: <a href="mailto:liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> Subject: [Liverpool] A free internet<br>> <br>> Hi all,<br>> <br>> We've discussed the issue of creating a grass-roots based network separate from the Internet before[0] so I thought the following article might be of interest:<br>
> <br>> <a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-next-net">http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-next-net</a><br>> <br>> Bob<br>> <br>> <br>> [0] <a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/liverpool/2009-November/002330.html">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/liverpool/2009-November/002330.html</a><br>
> <br>> <br>> --<br>> Bob Ham <rah@bash.sh><br>> <br>> for (;;) { ++pancakes; }<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Liverpool mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
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