Reply #51: Yes, FIDO and Tor should be able to set-up a non-telco network

[Jose Diablo]

If there is enough participants.

http://tor.eff.org/

PC's today have enough horsepower enough to set-up something that could resemble todays internet. Maybe a few of the PC's could be "accessing PC's" that would provide high speed bandwidth to bridge isolated Tor networks around the country with strong encryption on the payload of the packets.

A good start would be to start sending PGP encrypted e-mails between friends so overwelm the monitoring of e-mail. After all, nobody sends a letter via snail mail without an envelope, so why is it we send e-mails without an envelope? If everyone is sending there e-mails encrypted, you can bet NSA would be troubled. What they try to capture are messages with certail keywords. If it's all encrypted, the frontend gathering, is screwed. It reverts to the network of old where there just isn't enough people to monitor. Without 'carnivours' ability to gather and sniff-out for the keywords, well it a big task to sift through a terabit of data manually, to say nothing to try to decrypt the gigaplex number of messages.

As for voice, I wonder if VOIP can be run on Tor. Wouldn't that be something, to screw the telco's with FIDO and Tor.

Edit: LOL, I can see it now, a self configuring and self healing network immune to monitoring by either the telco's or governments, anywhere. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it, FBI.