Hacker Chat by Francis Gulotta

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#Hacker Chat

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#Hi I'm Francis

.center[I like Programming, Robots, & Education]

I muse [@reconbot](https://twitter.com/reconbot)
I write at [roborooter.com](http://www.roborooter.com/)
I work at [wizarddevelopment.com](http://www.wizarddevelopment.com/)

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#Agenda

1. MESH Networks
2. What exists
3. Hacker Chat
4. Demo
5. Future

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#MESH
### noun

1. material made of a network of wire or thread.
"mesh for fishing nets"

2. an interlaced structure.
"cell fragments that agglutinate and form intricate meshes"

.footnote[Oras Al-Kubaisi https://secure.flickr.com/photos/orasik/5211485464]

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#WIFI Mesh Networks

- A few cities have them
 - IP networks -> Internet
 - Stationary Access points (wifi)
 - Expensive Backhaul Mesh (5.8ghz)
 - Lots of maintenance
 - Lots of routing protocols, hardware, legacy software, fcc, local store owners .fade[, angry neighbors, why are you on my roof?, is that a IED? I'm calling the cops!]

.footnote[
http://gowasabi.net 
http://subnod.es/ 
http://urbanomnibus.net/2013/09/local-connections-the-red-hook-wifi-project/
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# Still a Centralized Network

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# Using Centralized Apps

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# The Dream
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# The Dream

.hero[Decentralized .highlight[behaviors] served by decentralized .highlight[apps] over decentralized .highlight[networks].]

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# Behaviors

- Chatting (irc, gtalk, twitter, WhatsApp)
- Long Form Messages (email, blogs)
- Media Sharing (photos, music, video)
- Local Human Discovery (Bars, Tinder, Foursquare)

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# Apps

- Bitcoin, Namecoin, Zeocoin - All use irc =(
- Bittorrent with DHT (local peer discovery, local peer priority)
- Gnutella/Kazza (connect to anybody, each node is the same)
- Darknets (tor, i2p, freenet, WASTE)
- Bittorrent chat (announced)

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# Networks
 - Internet (primarily centralized)
 - Cell (centralized)
 - Bluetooth/BLE (centralized and tiny)
 - Lan (centralized, but privately owned)
 - NFC (decentralized but very low range)
 - GoTenna (not announced, BLE+phone?)
 - XBEE (centralized but not for long)
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# XBEE
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# XBEE

- Supports Ad Hoc Mesh Network
- Currently centralized but firmware is coming to remove this from lightbulb manufactures (seriously)
- smart cheap little chips
- <$50 for device and usb
- Speaks Serial (node-serialport)
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.footnote[http://xbee.wikispaces.com/MESH ]
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# Hacker Chat

- WhatsApp for Hackers (I've never used WhatsApp)
- Use XBEE as a proof of concept network
- Use Node to power it
- Peer Discovery
- Peer to Peer Chat
- Broadcast Chat

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#Demo

.hero[https://github.com/reconbot/hackerchat 
 npm install -g hackerchat
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# Wish: Hacker Email

- Email that is very delay tolerant (sends when you're in range of other people)
- Namecoin is a distributed cryptographically secure hash table, could be used for username registration, a "first contact" cost, and public and private key communication
- A truly ad hoc decentralized network hardware

.footnote[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_ad_hoc_network ]

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# Thanks!

.hero[
I muse [@reconbot](https://twitter.com/reconbot)
I write at [roborooter.com](http://www.roborooter.com/)
I work at [wizarddevelopment.com](http://www.wizarddevelopment.com/)
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