Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet 180
concertina226 (2447056) writes "Online hacktivist collective Anonymous has announced that it is working on a new tool called Airchat which could allow people to communicate without the need for a phone or an internet connection — using radio waves instead. Anonymous, the amorphous group best known for attacking high profile targets like Sony and the CIA in recent years, said on the project's Github page: 'Airchat is a free communication tool [that] doesn't need internet infrastructure [or] a cell phone network. Instead it relies on any available radio link or device capable of transmitting audio.' Despite the Airchat system being highly involved and too complex for most people in its current form, Anonymous says it has so far used it to play interactive chess games with people at 180 miles away; share pictures and even established encrypted low bandwidth digital voice chats. In order to get Airchat to work, you will need to have a handheld radio transceiver, a laptop running either Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, and be able to install and run several pieces of complex software." And to cleanse yourself of the ads with autoplaying sound, you can visit the GitHub page itself.
Communicate without need for phone or internet... (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe he should call it "Talking".
Airchat, or as I like to call it, CB Radio (Score:5, Funny)
10-4, good buddy!
Hmmmm... might have to dig out my 150W linear amplifier I used to use to drown out obnoxious truckers with, when they needed a smackdown.
Re:but... (Score:4, Funny)
I thought they were best known for making grandiose claims that never came to fruition? Remember how they were going to destroy facebook?
I thought they'd done that? They logged on to Facebook, decided it was already rubbish and left it as-is. Job done.
Re:Best/worst part is (Score:4, Funny)
In Huntsville, AL, there is a Seventh-Day Adventist college called Oakwood College that plays shitty gospel music on a radio station nominally on the lower part of the FM band, but their (large) transmitter is so badly tuned that it shits all over the lower part of the FM band -- and on people's land lines within a few miles. It's located in a very uneducated section of town, and some of the locals have said that they thought the gospel music was "something the phone company did, y'know, to be nice and give us something to listen to."
I haven't been back with my car in a while, so I have no idea if they've fixed it.