Mesh-Netzwerke verbinden Geräte miteinander und schaffen so ihr eigenes WLAN. Ein neues Gerät wurde speziell für politische Proteste entwickelt und soll die WLAN-Konnektivität auch dann aufrechterhalten, wenn die Regierung die Verbindung unterbricht.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mesh-network-political-protests-amigo
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Research paper: [https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1872](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1872)
Mesh networks can route data device-to-device, so even if ISPs or cell towers go dark, the network stays alive locally.
This will allow devices to be more easily identifiable
I’m not an IT person, but also far from being technology challenged, so asking from that perspective.
Do mesh networks like this (I know typically mesh networks are used on corporate campuses for employees to have seamless WiFi experience) open up the network for bad actors like a false node within the network scraping data or perhaps even altering data to repeat out to the network? Are they relying heavily on encryption and for authentication to be robust to validate nodes? Isn’t the premise that each node would be acting on people’s devices? What if the devices themselves are compromised rather than the protocol itself?