A severe cryptographic vulnerability in the popular open-source Meshtastic project allows attackers to decrypt private messages and hijack nodes across LoRa mesh networks.
The idea that people use quantum computers against meshtastic nodes is pretty funny to me. I think meshtastic attracts a certain kind of person who is security minded and maybe even prepper adjacent (like ham radio tends to). That leads to some odd things like worrying about nation states attacking their nodes.
To be clear, I’m not saying better security isn’t worth it, nor am I saying it wouldn’t ever happen, but the idea that folks are hiding things that important on meshtastic is a little silly to me. I think their biggest threat is other hobbyists. Not nation states.
It’s mostly the issue of saving transmissions for later. Very much not a high priority but solid future planning in the face of governments plagiarizing Orwell and Huxley.
The idea that people use quantum computers against meshtastic nodes is pretty funny to me. I think meshtastic attracts a certain kind of person who is security minded and maybe even prepper adjacent (like ham radio tends to). That leads to some odd things like worrying about nation states attacking their nodes.
To be clear, I’m not saying better security isn’t worth it, nor am I saying it wouldn’t ever happen, but the idea that folks are hiding things that important on meshtastic is a little silly to me. I think their biggest threat is other hobbyists. Not nation states.
It’s mostly the issue of saving transmissions for later. Very much not a high priority but solid future planning in the face of governments plagiarizing Orwell and Huxley.