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Wireless Networks That Build Themselves

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the quit-draining-my-battery dept.

ScienceDaily has an interesting article that looks at ad-hoc wireless networks and how they might be even more useful on a large scale. The RUNES project is featured as an example of software projects that might be able to make mobile devices that form self-organizing wireless networks to help promote this goal. "RUNES set out to create middleware: software that bridges the gap between the operating systems used by the mobile sensor nodes, and high-level applications that make use of data from the sensors. RUNES middleware is modular and flexible, allowing programmers to create applications without having to know much about the detailed working of the network devices supplying the data. This also makes it easy to incorporate new kinds of mobile device, and to re-use applications."

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  1. I'll bet.... by UncleTogie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...that malware writers will LOVE this. Free propagation, just add mesh!

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  2. Re:Responsibility by iknownuttin · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What happens if your mobile device forms a node over which someone else gets child porn?

    FTFA:Applications include emergency management, security, helping vulnerable people to live independently, traffic control, warehouse management, and environmental monitoring.

    I really don't see this protocol, at first anyway, being used for consumer devices. I'm sure someone will find an application for it, but I don't see the need in the near term. And, I would assume, there would have to be some sort of identifier of the sender and ultimate receiver like TCP/IP has in its protocol.

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  3. Re:Recipe for Cash by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just because someone routes traffic through your node, doesn't mean you can read it. A man in the middle attack across encryption requires that people accept unsecured certificates, which happens often enough, but it's not a slam dunk by any stretch. Theoretically they could try to screw with the PKI, but that would involve breaking their keys, and if you could do that, then stealing someone's bank info would be trivial.

    The great thing about public key crypto is that the key that is visible is meant to be.

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