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We need firechat
| What makes firechat any better than other OTR/Encrypted programs, like Cryptocat addon for Firefox or OTR messaging for Pidgin?
| Because you don't need to have internet to use it . I don't know the 2 others
| >Don't need internet to use it.
What.
| I think he means being in the same network would be enough, something like FIDO
| You're suggesting I, a not Hong Kong resident, start using their emergency chat channel.
| LAN chat would still require some sort of host/server to universally connect everyone. Otherwise you're talking about P2P which is extremely inconvenient.
| Well, you just need Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but not to connect your phone at a host/server, but to give you message at another g/u/RL who will give the message to another g/u/RL, etc ... To reach your final receiver.
Theoretically, if you have one person every 70 meters on Earth, you can send a message to whoever you want. Sure, it's inconvenient, but it fits very well with mega-concentre city as Hong-Kong.
| PS: sorry for my bad English
| In case of global surveillance however, you can just build a VPN much like Tor. With VPN tunnels creating a huge tunnel network. Give every device a max of 3 tunnels and recrypting. Ain't nobody gonna touch that.
| That Firechat doesn't need
| And I also think that Firechat is more "user-friendly"
| Seriously if we start using their emergency chat for our own shits just because its cool is kinda bad, theyre probably devising things and talking about their problems then we hop on and start making tech boards
| >>59372 it's not just because "it's cool", it's because this app need a lot of users to work correctly offline. So if just more people, living in big Urban areas in country where the internet might shut down as in Russia or south Korea, know that Firechat exist, it would be great.
| >>59348 Unless you're setting up rogue hotspots just about everywhere which is doomed to fail in security... You can't (securely) communicate without internet.
| > 60107 valid point ^^
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| In case of global surveillance, or riot as in Hong Kong , we would need an application to speak with each other whitout being watched. Hong Kong students created Firechat, it's like a chat app but in pear to pear. If more people download it, it will be easier to speak with other Firechat users. And Hey, it's pretty cyberpunk