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“The radio communication works much like a walkie-talkie or CB radio, with the transmitter acting as a sender and receiver-only you’re sending computer commands instead of audio.” “It uses radio waves instead of WiFi” – really, Motherboard? What does WiFi use, carrier pigeons? The “Wi” in “WiFi” stands for “wireless”. Everybody can receive an encrypted packet – but only the holder of the private key can decrypt it. There are two basic modes of communication: clear-text broadcasts that anybody within range can receive (as the project says, for “for general broadcasting and community discussion”) and asymmetric encryption, for anonymous communication. So to anonymise communications, the system uses a packet, the Lulzpacket, which handles error correction and encryption.
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It's also very simple.ĪirChat ignores low-layer addressing, (a transmission is necessarily visible to any receiver within range). The anonymity scheme is interesting, since over on the Internet, addressing is the always-in-the-clear metadata that makes true anonymity such a tough nut to crack.
Ham radio on the internet license#
Beyond the project's rhetoric about “evil organisations like the FCC”, it is reasonable to think that an activist communicating from a trouble spot doesn't have time to obtain a ham radio license before they start communicating (and anyhow, doing so doesn't let you preserve anonymity). The latter carries a risk, but AirChat's author or authors believe it's justifiable.