{"id":5946,"date":"2019-09-09T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:03:19","slug":"use-briar-instead-of-bridgefy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/09\/09\/use-briar-instead-of-bridgefy\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Briar instead of Bridgefy!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other \u2014 and the public \u2014 using no persistent managed network…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Too bad that Bridgefy<\/a> is proprietary software. Luckyly there are free-as-in-freedom alternatives<\/a>: the first entry is Briar:<\/a><\/p>\n

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging tools such as email, Twitter or Telegram, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It has a nice website<\/a>, it’s available on both Google Play “walled garden” and in the free-as-in-freedome F-Droid repository: \"Get<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/a>\"Get<\/a>And the sources are readily available as a git repository<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco…<\/p>\n

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