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by einhverfr 4675 days ago
My point is that if you are opposed to cables because they can be tapped, wireless poses more problems....
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Yes, but P2P mesh networks that are built for security have an advantage. They're encrypted end to end, for every node, and there's no one to implement a backdoor for the government, like in the case of ISP's. The ISP's right now are giving the government access all the data, unencrypted.

It's going to be a lot harder to "tap" a secure mesh network that's encrypted at every node. I would look more into this one:

http://hyperboria.net/

I saw the 'also' in the ggp as referring to both wireless and cable networks. So he's aware of that.