In Hong Kong’s protests, technology is a battlefield

The importance of mesh networks and secure messing platforms as democracy enablers cannot be minimized in this situation. This is why government control of cryptography technology is both pointless and unwanted. The people must control it, not corporate or state interests.

It was an image that fascinated the world—a sea of lights coming from thousands of Hong Kong protesters waving their lit up mobile phones in the darkness. That’s what you get from a city that averages more than two mobile phones per person. Occupy Central, aka the Umbrella Revolution, may be the ... http://qz.com/274973