[clue] decentralizing the Internet

[chris fedde]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:15 PM, marcus hall <marcus at tuells.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:41:48AM -0700, Bruce Ediger wrote:
>> Given the centralized nature of our "Public Switched Telephone Netowrk",
>> telecom companies are like a spider at the middle of the web.
>>
>> They have boxes called "DCS-3000" or "DCS-6000" in the middle of every
>> phone network.  Turning on or off a tap is pretty easy these days.
>>
>> If you want a decentralized internet, you have to aovid the phone
>> companies. They're already co-opted, from a security-paranoia viewpoint.
>
> AX.25 then?  (Amateur radio packet data)
>

I suspect that something reasonable could be setup using wifi and
directional antennas to cover a metropolitan area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network has a few other
ideas.   On the other hand we're pretty dependent on big centrally
controlled services like google, twitter, facebook etc.