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how do i prep for the digital surveillance crisis worsening? (nord.pub)

submitted 20 hours ago by shioprince@nord.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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the KIDS act may or may not pass the US senate, the EU is planning a social media ban, chat control might pass, etc.... what exactly do i have to do to prep for all this?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Get familliar with tor hidden social media like pitch and be on nostr and lemmy.

Also get MeshCore

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Do we have the new Lara protocol already with voice and all? I forgot about those things, been waiting for that to hop in.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

There's always a tradeoff. Shannon's law cannot be avoided (without new physics). You can have 2 of low power, long range, and high bandwidth, not all 3 at once. Fortunately, the most important information we exchange isnt actually much data.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

LoRa can do voice with Reticulum, but its better not to do so because of the bandwidth limit

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I know, but on the new version it was said to be done better, faster, higher quality and much easier.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lora has like 12k max bandwidth, much less in real environments. Voice works in asymmetric transmission (like walkie talkies), but it's not useful in any meaningful way over unlicensed airwaves.

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that the new version was supposed to improve that and make it viable for talking. I might be wrong though.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Analog, yes, no problem. We had 915MHz portable phones that worked fine. Digital is another matter altogether, and encrypted is a licensing mess.