Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network. Photo Robert Smith, a 19-year-old in a gray T-shirt and camouflage pants, climbed the stairwell of the Joseph Miccio Community Center in Red Hook, scaled a ladder at the top floor and jumped onto the roof. He soon found what he was looking for: bright, white plastic boxes, each about the size of a brick, some with little antennas sticking out. Mr. Smith pulled a laptop from his backpack and got to work, tending to the nodes of the Red Hook mesh, an ambitious plan to link up a local wireless digital network across the neighborhood.
With the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway just ahead and the Lower Manhattan skyline in the distance, Mr. Though these white boxes, spread across various rooftops in Red Hook, may appear haphazard, or guerrilla even, the Red Hook mesh is actually in the vanguard of wireless networking. Because the devices speak to one another, they are more than a series of “hot spots” with Internet access; the mesh remains a network whether or not it is connected to the Internet. Mesh Networks and Spying Online.
From WAMU 88.5 at American University in Washington, welcome to "The Kojo Nnamdi Show," connecting your neighborhood with the world. Later in the broadcast, the changing art scene. How artists are faring in Washington and what needs to be done to keep them here. But first, the Internet has been a boon for activists. But the flip side of the coin is that despite the seeming anonymity we enjoy online, many have long suspected what NSA spying revelations continue to prove, there is ultimately nowhere to hide.
But some communities are experimenting with ways to share information without having to connect to the Internet. Here to explain this is James Glanz. He is a reporter with The New York Times. Glad to be here. James, going off the grid is not a new concept, but it's one that has never really been attainable for online activists for practical reasons. Well, it's a real gee-whiz kind of technology. And there you go. 800-433-8850 is our number here. Well, it was an amazing journey. Yeah. U.S. Promotes Network to Foil Digital Spying. U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors Abroad. The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet. The American effort, revealed in dozens of interviews, planning documents and classified diplomatic cables obtained by The New York Times, ranges in scale, cost and sophistication. Some projects involve technology that the United States is developing; others pull together tools that have already been created by hackers in a so-called liberation-technology movement sweeping the globe. The Invisible Web Then there was Mr. Mr.