Secure comms over ham radio?

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Secure comms over ham radio?
Date	2014-05-02 20:17 +0000
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<lk0uhn$p14$1@solani.org> (permalink)

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Title: Anonymous develops system for secure data over ham radio
Author: Anonymous Coward
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:15:18 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-05-02/anonymous-develops-system-for-secure-data-over-ham-radio

In the Snowden era, it's pretty clear that the Internet as a worldwide
communication medium that would permit activists to securely communicate and
disseminate information has not been effective: governments appear to be
surprisingly and increasingly effective[1] at clamping down on, censoring,
controlling Internet information as well as using it to track down
dissidents. Mobile telephony isn't much better as it's a related technology
that suffers many of the same ills as TCP/IP with regard to anonymity. So the
privacy gurus are turning to a technology you'd probably forgotten: Ham Radio[2]
.Airchat, they call it, and it's got a few characteristics that make it very
interesting and useful[3] . The group states:

The goal of the project is to communicate directly, without using Internet
or cellular infrastructure. ... We traded bandwidth for freedom, simplicity
and low cost.

It's not a fast protocol, since packet data over audio channels is
necessarily low bandwidth. But its promise to offer real anonymity is a big
deal. And not surprisingly, these enterprising hackers are having fun with
it. For starters, to anonymise communications and handle encryption and error
correction, the system uses a packet they call the Lulzpacket .Curious? go
check out the code for yourself on github[4] .

Links:
[1]: http://dictatorshandbook.net (link)
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio (link)
[3]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/01/anonymous_to_world_go_pirate_radio_for_datacomms/ (link)
[4]: https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat/blob/master/README.md (link)

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Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-02 20:17 +0000
  Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-02 12:46 -0800
    Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-02 21:02 +0000
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-03 08:02 +0100
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-04 21:33 +0000
        Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-05 15:22 -0700
          Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 07:51 +0100
            Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-06 03:18 -0700
              Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 11:51 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-05-06 16:09 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-06 21:49 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-05-08 16:12 +0200
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-06 16:43 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-05-06 18:00 +0100
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-06 17:02 +0000
                Re: Secure comms over ham radio? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-06 18:41 +0000
      Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-07 14:09 -0800
    Re: Secure comms over ham radio? john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-05-07 14:08 -0800

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