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Cubans defy government's home internet ban with secret home-made network

Crazy Operations Guy

Mesh network via WiFi modules?

It would be fairly trivial to build a massive mesh network of small modules. Build a small device with an ARM SoC and a couple extra radios, maybe a couple gigs of storage (There are many SoC with all this built-in) and you can have a tiny, portable node with an in-built web server / proxy / caching. Build up a customized version of tor for the routing.

Stick a solar panel on it and a battery to let it last the night, and add a hook or two and you ave a small device that can be hidden nearly anywhere in a public location providing a free network that can't be traced to anyone (stick 'em on top of roofs, utility poles, treetops, sides of buildings). Drop in a couple with a satellite module to provide access to the greater internet.

It'd be trivial and fairly cheap to build them, and not too difficult to flood the country with them. At a high enough rate, the government would be swamped and unable to confiscate them fast enough to kill this kind of network. The difficult part would be getting them into the country and paying for the satellite time (Maybe use weather balloons or cubeSats instead?)

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