Universal communication using imperfect hardware #4827
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proof-of-principle inside the survey with 30+ citations and screenshots (IEEE 2-column). Screenshots of prototype V0.013? |
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Current survey topic: Smartphone ad hoc networks (SPANs) Up-to-date reading list, notes + latex draft: https://github.com/MattSkala/meshnet-survey Current sprint goal:
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Great progress! Screenshot? |
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UI not that interesting, but Nearby Connections and Bluetooth transports are working.
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(Have not been able to test BLE L2CAP and WiFi Aware yet due to the lack of supporting devices) Next sprint:
trustchain-android could be useful after some refactoring (the core logic should be extracted into a reusable Java library) |
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Emphasis on science: any-time any-place communication, No-Internet-Needed communication paradigm. Talked about for 40-years, no significant deployment yet. Finally the end-user has software access to the advanced mesh-networking capable devices on affordable devices. |
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Testing setup. Each device connected to two other devices, all of them able to communicate with each other using a simple flooding-based mesh network.
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Impressive prototype, operational ad-hoc networking and broadcasting. No crypto yet in this early work. messaging works! Ad-hoc secure connection fabric |
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Quite related excerpt from the Redecentralized digest:
Retroshare seems to align with the goal of making a peer-to-peer social network overlay. It support chatting, mail, file sharing, forums, link sharing and even channel functionality. There even seems to be an experimental VOIP plugin for video and audio chatting. |
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The Internet has been shut down for 120 days in Kashmir, WhatsApp deleting inactive accounts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/hundreds-of-kashmiris-are-disappearing-from-their-whatsapp |
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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers |
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Current thesis proposal: Multi-transport Peer-to-peer Communication Protocol for Mobile Devices
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Turkey: arrest of 75,000 suspects, primarily for downloading ByLock app. |
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Always On Overlay: Universal Connectivity using imperfect hardware
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Related work for decentral social network. You need to obtain the public key of your friends within a web-of-trust. |
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Fascinating research here! I don't know what to suggest, as even LTE-Direct & LTE-V protocols do not permit connections without permission from a carrier tower, & cellular modems in commonly available end-user devices would require homebrew firmware to bypass such restrictions (or to work as SDR in xmit mode); I'm quite certain longer ranges are needed to make decentralized communication functional enough to achieve general viability though. Please keep working on these projects (I hope my interjection is not unwelcome!) & know that I applaud your efforts... I am just tired of seeing one project after another languish in isolated deployments & low functional adoption. I believe that (whether legally or not) cellular or other bands with 1mi+ range must be leveraged in order to escape communications captivity. Without specifically advocating such a course of action, I'd like to hear informed thoughts on this subject? |
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This hackaton project uses an Android app and Bluetooth features to check for people with COVID-19 in your vicinity. From the website:
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@ProphetZarquon Yes, you indeed need long-hail links if you want to build a useful network. It seems already 8 years ago I did an IETF Internet Standard draft writeup on kill-switches from governments and what to do against them. Moving information around on smartphones, store-and-forward, seems like the only viable method. Directional antenna will only get you so far. Maybe in another 10 years we will have useful soft beamforming MIMO in our software radios in each phone... |
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Without robust decentralized long-range communication options, I think ten years from now anyone knowledgeable enough to establish such solutions will be too scared to even discuss it. Already |
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sprint progress, latest .PDF thesis:
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Title proposal: "Reliable Trustworthy Communication using faulty hardware", is more accurate and catchy. The harsh term fault is justified because IETF Internet Standards are violated by network operators. Trust-paradox is also linked in title now. Alternative to "Universal communication using imperfect hardware". |
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👏 With this milestone it becomes realistic to dream of adding address book functionality. Thus yielding a zero-server secure social network. Even your thesis title could reflect this. But your framework can also be extended to a MusicDAO, zero-server AI, and is thus a generic Big Tech alternative library. The rate limiter forces you to use a certain UDP puncture method. Either detect using the behavioral pattern (switches in external IPv4) or hard-code the IPv4 blocks like Final thesis sprints:
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Problem Description: The Internet is under continuous attack Many Internet protocols, security companies, and security models have been compromised. Within this thesis we address a big open research question, can we make non-trivial software systems that are safe? We identify three classes of attacks on The Internet: attacks on the protocol level, compromised central companies, and broken ecosystems. These problems lead us to the following detailed problem description. Can we remove the reliance on any outside party, protect against malware, use open source software with proven software correctness, offer perfect forward secrecy for our communication, and protect against "Strong Existential Unforgeability under Chosen Message Attack"? Within this thesis we focus on the secure communication part within the grand question of how to make the Internet safe again. Other researchers within my research lab designed a system for trustworthy code module execution. |
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Latest .APK |
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The scientific problem we focus on within this thesis is how can we bootstrap an ecosystem which will make The Internet safe and fair. The thesis approach to this ideological-driven scientific problem is to remove any central point from the ecosystem which can potentially be compromised or corrupted to act against the user interest. We propose a zero-server architecture which removes structural bottlenecks for security, privacy, fairness and governance. This thesis provides irrefutable proof that our zero-server architecture is capable of solving wicked problems such as online voting, shared ownership of money, decentralised machine learning, bounty-based software engineering, fully automated decentralised marketplaces, and replace media industry intermediaries with code. We experimentally validated our zero-server architecture with software developers at master-level. A student development team with 17 members successfully created various non-trivial extensions to our foundational zero-server architecture within 10 weeks. Our zero-server architecture offers various networking primitives. These serve as the basic building blocks for creating full fledged alternatives for the services of "trusted" third parties or Big Tech companies. They are:
This thesis builds upon the recent breakthrough of the superapp paradigm. We focus on the latest development in software engineering for smartphones because this is currently the dominant method for Internet access for a large part of the worlds population. In a very short period 1 million "mini-apps" have been developed for the popular Wechat ecosystem using the Superapp paradigm. [1, 2,3, 4, 5]. Our Superapp based on the novel zero-server architecture has several desirable properties. We believe that this thesis proves the first proof-of-principle of a disruptive open innovation ecosystem which is resilient against attacks by disrupted or disintermediated corporate entities. Especially legal intimidation, lawyer-based attacks and creation of chilling effects. Within our 10 week experiment several mini-apps where developed successfully. |
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Related work for a potential storyline: An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management. This work contains a discussion on the management of the digital commons. Section IV: "At the heart of this debate is whether the Internet should retain its end-to-end architecture and continue to be managed in an openly accessible manner." |
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Reclaiming The Internet for the social goodThis master thesis empowers citizens to take back control of The Internet. More specifically, we present the self-organising technology stack to take back The Internet. Who owns The Internet? The Internet is essentially private property, with few exceptions. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Tencent, and others operate the central components of our daily digital lives. For instance, we require permission from Google and Apple to publish software for mobile devices. Their monopoly power means no other meaningful method exists to reach billions of smartphone users with newly created apps. This thesis introduces a novel type of low-level network overlay and proof-of-principle zero-server social network. Our zero-server architecture offers various networking primitives. These serve as the basic building blocks for creating full fledged alternatives for the services of "trusted" third parties or Big Tech companies. These primitive increase in strength and cover identity management, communication, code execution and social software engineering. Within the context of this thesis we conducted an experiment with computer science students. A student development team at master-level with 17 members successfully created various non-trivial extensions to our zero-server architecture within 10 weeks. With their efforts the "superapp" presented within this thesis provides operational features such as online voting, shared ownership of money, fully automated decentralised marketplaces, and a Spotify alternative. The full list of Superapp features, at an early proof-of-principle stage of software development:
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The superapp is new paradigm in software engineering. Users have an app with numerous possibilities each of them integrated and deep understanding of your social graph and who you trust. No leakage of this vital information to others or central servers. It also serves as a social coding platform where each module contribution gets global visibility without the burden of marketing and (fake) app review hunting. Progress: social network is operational in Beta with friend feeds 🥇 Tribler/trustchain-superapp#41 Thesis writing first now, online profiles with photos are secondary. ToDo: 1) scientific paper by 31 Aug in 6-pages of your work 2) Google Play store listing of superapp 3) a few key screenshots with epic something.. Engineering first principle..: "5.1. Project Structure" and only then the scientific key insight of "5.2. System Architecture". Likewise "5.7. Library Usage", "5.7 creating a community"; we aim to germinate a community through software re-usage and defining an IETF Internet Standard around this work. Wild idea for results section, buy positive reviews and document results for a stand-alone app; stay legal. ToDo: graphs with experimental results in key "performance evaluation and experiments" chapter. Response time with 1000 friends in your address book, etc. |
Supertrust: fixing the Facebook monopolyRoughly 2 billion humans interact with Facebook every day, it has a 75% market share. Facebook has chosen not to compete on the merits of its products and services and instead has misled, deceived, and exploited consumers and publishers. Evidence discussed in an analysis paper shows that for 10 years Facebook has avoided competition in the social network market. Professor Fiona M. Scott Morton from Yale University states that: "Facebook has engaged in a long-term, integrated, anticompetitive strategy of half-truths about its privacy policies, exclusionary API manipulation, and anticompetitive acquisitions of nascent competitors that led to its current dominance of a market in which it now wields significant power over consumers, advertisers, and publishers". We propose a zero-server architecture for social networking which removes the need for central control by Facebook. This thesis provides irrefutable proof that our zero-server architecture is capable of creating the first interoperable product between various social network platforms. No central element exists which can form a performance bottleneck or point-of-failure. Our zero-server architecture offers various networking primitives. These serve as the basic building blocks for creating full fledged Facebook alternative with full interoperability and data portability. We have not created a full alternative to Facebook within the context of a single master thesis. However, we provide the basis for it and claim that our infrastructure will scale to usage by the 2 billion existing Facebook users without fundamental alterations. Our Internet-deployed network primitives are:
Our zero-server architecture is also meticulously designed to offer another unique property: resilience against legal attacks. Legal action may be expected when a monopoly is attacked. We believe that this thesis proves the first proof-of-principle of a disruptive open innovation ecosystem which is resilient against attacks by disrupted or disintermediated corporate entities. Possible legal attacks includes: legal intimidation, lawyer-based attacks and creation of chilling effects. Our unique approach to governance gives ownership to both nobody and everybody. By creating an academically pure form of self-organisation we create a leaderless infrastructure in which even the original creators have no special powers. It is difficult to block, disrupt or shutdown our zero-server approach with either legal or technological means when used by citizens at scale. On top of our networking primitives we facilitate an open innovation ecosystem. Every user can extend the functionality of the platform freely, called "mini-apps". No gatekeepers exists to moderate mini-apps, this relies on self-moderation by the community. We conducted an experiment around the mini-apps to determine how easy they are to develop. A student development team with 17 members successfully created various mini-apps with our zero-server architecture. Developed mini-apps within a 10-week period include: group creation and shared ownership of money, secure online quorum-based voting, decentralised machine learning, and sharing of music recording. |
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Near final thesis .PDF of 60 pages In general, this thesis does not claim any of the scientific breakthroughs that are achieved. Its really solid work and important step towards Big Tech alternatives. Remarks:
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I'm pretty impressed, I'll love to follow your steps and checked all the code and notations. This thesis has been deployed to make successful technology, I think, could implement a low-cost repeater, I figured that like a patrol of drones making surveillance in a way of "machine learning distributed network" like a microsatellite, I think we will put some low-cost hardware with comunicatión by laser to extend a network across larger distances... with all the respect what all of the people in this project deserves, I want to implement some of these big tech stuff you are making for real. Thanks and now you are making a decade of investment and deployment a successful protocol, library, and framework, congrats! |
Technology Stack for Decentralized Mobile ServicesTHESIS FINISHED. Direct download of raw .PDF with 59 pages of text btw Seems the idea itself of P2P apps got already introduced by Stanford in 2012, but never realised. Until Matt did it! https://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/musubi_disintermediated.pdf |
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Skeleton GUI + 30-ish citation paper.
Example from few years ago: "Survey of robust and resilient social media tools on Android"
https://www.google.nl/search?q=friend+to+friend+torrent
Switch between Libtorrent-broadcast and direct QUIC based transport to your friends
Record protests, broadcast to the world. Please investigate: Hong Kong protesters using Bluetooth Bridgefy app. Plus Life in an Internet Shutdown: Crossing Borders for Email and Contraband SIM Cards. Our own proposal from pre-Snowden days, 7 years ago: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-censorfree-scenarios-02
Explicit offline/bluetooth,private and open Internet status:
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