Because if you are ever arrested with your phone, even if it is encrypted, you may be forced or coerced to unlock it.
To add, if you do encrypt it, always use a password or passcode, because they cannot legally compel you to divulge the content of your own mind (at least in the USA… for now) while if you use a fingerprint or facial scan, they are totally allowed to force you to show your face or use your fingerprint to open it.
It would be really helpful/cool if people got into building LoRa swarms of small texting devices for such events.
To add, if you do encrypt it, always use a password or passcode, because they cannot legally compel you to divulge the content of your own mind (at least in the USA… for now) while if you use a fingerprint or facial scan, they are totally allowed to force you to show your face or use your fingerprint to open it.
It would be really helpful/cool if people got into building LoRa swarms of small texting devices for such events.
I wasn’t able to easily find any articles or sites that explain this … any recommendations on where one could read about this more?
Here’s a proof of concept from 2023: https://msglab.co/project/lo-ra-msg
There’s others as well, and as this project notes a lot of the underlying code is a mishmash and generally unfinished and buggy.
https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
Meshtastic is another fantastic LoRa network project.
Edit: here’s another
https://www.tindie.com/products/bobricius/armachat-meshtastic-compatible-lora-messenger/