[HN Gopher] The 'Network of Web Trees' in Gaza
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The 'Network of Web Trees' in Gaza
Author : mwenge
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-06-13 07:19 UTC (1 days ago)
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| gnabgib wrote:
| Article title: _The ingenious 'network tree' defying Gaza 's
| connectivity blockade_
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| solarpunk wrote:
| this is pretty neat, reminds me of cuba's meshnet system.
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| i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan's eSIMs was
| going, this seems to be one of the results.
| rl3 wrote:
| > _i was wondering how all the efforts to buy gazan 's eSIMs
| was going, this seems to be one of the results._
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| The eSIM stuff terrifies me, because you know damn well they're
| feeding that data into their intelligence apparatus for
| targeting purposes, and recent history has shown thus far that
| they don't give much of a shit about collateral damage.
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| I highly suspect that nearby cellular activity increases the
| chances of being injured or killed by an airstrike.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Some eSIM resources for you and the group:
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| Anonymous eSIM with no KYC
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| https://silent.link/
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| Anatomy of the eSIM profile
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| https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcon2024-174-anatomy-of-the-
| esi...
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| Exploring eUICCs and eSIMS using pySim, lpac and osmo-smdpp
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| https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcall-20240117-laforce-euicc-
| es...
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| A Look at eSIMs and Number Hijacking
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| https://intel471.com/blog/a-look-at-esims-and-number-
| hijacki...
| aspenmayer wrote:
| > cuba's meshnet system
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| Related:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal
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| https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/
| Pfhortune wrote:
| Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing! I think Cuba is ahead
| of the curve here, considering the direction the internet is
| going these days WRT encroaching censorship and media
| availability issues.
| dmbche wrote:
| It's not extremely clear to me - they manage to put phones with
| Esim where there is signal and set up a hotspot for other phones?
| Or do they maintain hotspots near the border for the people in
| Gaza to conect to? Or a mix of both?
| solarpunk wrote:
| seems like a mix of both.
| solarpunk wrote:
| I went to the NGO to see if there any further technical
| specifications to read about, it doesn't seem so:
| https://www.acs-italia.it/gazaweb-e-gli-alberi-della-rete/
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| it seems to be purely built upon cellular connectivity and
| hotspots!
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| I'm shocked there's no meshnet stuff involved here, but I suppose
| we can't see much details beyond the backbone, last-mile
| connectivity methods are probably extremely hodgepodge.
| localfirst wrote:
| I wonder if something like this will become more prolific sort of
| like the rise of private gated suburban cities that has their own
| unrestricted internet jurisdiction vs the public facilities that
| overtime become ghettos with their own web trees capable of
| evading surveillance (by the group that wakes up every morning
| worried about losing it all to the people outside the fence).
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| Often wars are frontiers for societal shifts that arises from new
| technological inventions/adaptations. What we are seeing in Gaza
| very may well become a reality in the West in the future: a
| divorce of a globally connected world into its own islands that
| can only be accessed via physical proximity or like in my earlier
| example, _socioeconomic_ class, even by ethnicity.
| pphysch wrote:
| I've never seen "Gazzawi" used before as a demonym instead of
| Gazan.
| throw0320 wrote:
| And imagine securing food, water and electricity in such
| conditions!
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| Israel should open borders and allow war refugees to evacuate!
| There is no reason to leave civilians there, while they fight!
| hiddencost wrote:
| I mean Israel should withdraw, sign the peace deal to get the
| hostages free, send Netanyahu and Gallant to the ICJ, and pay
| reparations to rebuild Gaza.
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| That can take a 3% discount, for the October 7 attacks, given
| that they've taken at least 30 civilian lives for every one
| they lost.
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