Saturday, December 21, 2019

Net blocked, protesters use offline chat apps

Amid internet shutdowns due to protests over Citizenship (Amendment) Act, offline messaging apps such as Bridgefy, Fire-Chat and others are seeing a spike in usage. Both apps use a mesh network, which means that smartphones use short-range Bluetooth connections to form their own network, without the need of net.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/2PKjIB2

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