Could Lorawan provide a secure and private alternative to a sim?
these are already being build and supported by governments, but because they allow encryption and you can connect to it without registering they seem a lot more private and maybe even less prone to triangulation?
The problem with a lot of other protocols is that they don’t allow encryption or have low range and would need a wide network of many users to join, to make it useful.
A centralized network like a cell network will always be more efficient (cost and speed) that a decentralized one like LoRaWAN.
There already exist solutions for data sims without registration (travel e-sims or silent.link).
But if you need a phone number, well that’s kind of the end of the discussion on LoRaWAN anyways…
Also, (https) internet traffic over cellular data is always encrypted, so man-in-the-middle attacks aren’t really a concern.
As for triangulation, this would make it harder, but there would still be other ways - Apple and Android devices are constantly scanning for devices around them. They could potentially triangulate your phone’s location and provide it to the government on request.
Unless we can get the whole world to switch to GrapheneOS, I think our time/money is better spent working on OOT privacy tools rather than building it into infrastructure itself.
voip could work
i think even grapheneos is still a compromise, and it’s still a google phone.
there are already a lot OOT software solutions out there…
OOT hardware solutions isn’t that explored, they could be more privacy and environmental friendly and generally be more designed with purpose. The software could then be made and adjust to that environment, instead of the other way around.
and for that completely new infrastructure is needed
they could also combine old with new infrastructure, it doesn’t have to be a total shift, providing both