The meshtastic sadly makes implementation of a signal protocol almost impossible. I just wish we didn't need to have static single PSKs for secure comms over it.
The renter 404 Media spoke to said the same “credential-harvesting model now dominates Georgia rentals.” They pointed to other companies such as PayScore, Nova Credit (whose leadership includes an Argyle co-founder), and Snappt which also uses Argyle
Sounds like Georgia is at least one. You need the attention span to read through an otherwise terrible article to get to that point though.
My first modem was an AT&T 300 baud acoustic coupler. My last was a USRobotics 56k for the BBS I ran till the early 2000s.
I later switched to DSL for my Internet, but the reason we never did this sort of thing was the ISDN was just easier to get bandwidth and the tech existed to do what you needed with a few of them.
12x POTS lines, or 6 full duplex ISDNs.
My 56k never actually achieved that, most of the time it was 33.6 or 28.8.
This is neat, and fun to see them still being tinkered with.
NYPost is the political version of the 1980s tabloids saying "Elizabeth Taylor had Michael Jackson's alien baby, shocking photos inside!". Utter trash.
The quote from the Mayor is on point though, there are shittons of old riot video being sold as current as a justification.
About 1km shy of saving us from this absurd timeline we're in.