Mesh-netwerk

Bitchat: new privacy-friendly communication tool?

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Dorsey belooft met Bitchat een privacyveilige app

Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of social media network Twitter (now X), is launching a new messaging service Bitchat which works via a mesh network: without internet or network connection, but via bluetooth. Bitchat would work entirely peer-to-peer, without accounts, identification details or data collection. Mesh network Dorsey calls his Bitchat a ‘weekend project’. … Read more

With a mesh network you can communicate without mobile connection

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Met een Mesh-netwerk kan je communiceren zonder mobiele verbinding

During certain protests in Hong Kong, the government shut down the local mobile network, making it more difficult for demonstrators to organise themselves. However, through a simple app that works via a ‘mesh network’, they were still able to communicate, even though they had no network connection. Such a network therefore forms a handy alternative … Read more