They posted an update on amazon: We continue to investigate this issue. We can confirm that there is both impact to volumes and instances in a single AZ in US-EAST-1 Region. We are also experiencing increased error rates and latencies on the EC2 APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region.
Also Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia) is unavailible.
The main issue with transmitting data across the airways is not eavesdropping but jammers and the source being shut down. Encryption takes care of the eves, but with a few radios, you can triangulate the source. Why waste time breaking the encryption key (and if your smart you'll use 2048 Bit Cyphers+) when you can simply walk over to the source and take it directly from the transmitter.
Other than transmission, the hard part is making these systems resilient to attack and failure and for most of them, they want to be fully anonymous.
Now the alternative to full on meshnets are darknets. Darknets are built on existing infrastructure but are designed for resilience, anonymity, and encryption. These exist in popular forms such TOR, I2P and others. Of course the downside to this is that it can be shut down if the physical wiring is removed.
Great post, I've been looking to work with CV and was plannin g on using OpenCV with a python interface, but after your post I think I'll start with SimpleCV. as you said if the only limitation is speed, then I can port it to pure C for OpenCV.
You might want to change the videos on the Demos page as youtube is saying the uploader has closed their account.
One interesting thing from this was that the FBI couldn't trace him via the Tor network until they had his physical location. Good for Tor, glad to see they are still anonymous.
If I had been him, I'd have put Tor on top of a couple of vpses in some select countries around the world.
That being said, he was reckless and too ideological without considering he wouldn't be furthering his ideals. Its one thing to dump company secrets, its another to dump personal CCs.
Now if I was the FBI, I'd be trying to combine the successful methods of having undercover agents pose as terrorists with a hacker bent. Its the same sort of system, albeit purely digital.
Also Amazon Relational Database Service (N. Virginia) is unavailible.
Seems like its snowballing.