Toronto Gets Its Own Free, Encrypted Mesh Network - VICE

Apr 27, 2016 -

Canadians are famously dissatisfied with internet access in this country, and Mark Iantorno and Benedict Lau, two Toronto developers, are no exception. In December, they met for lunch at a cafeteria in a downtown office, and got to talking about how increasingly frustrated they were—Iantorno with sky-high data plan prices, and Lau, who is a mobile engineer with Android, with "black box design," or the opacity of consumer tech.

At that lunch, they talked about how to bring free, accessible internet to the city, uncoupled from Canada's three all-powerful telecoms. They went over various ideas: Iantorno suggested floating Wi-Fi rigged balloons over the city, an idea cribbed from Google's Project Loon. Lau was skeptical.

Toronto Gets Its Own Free, Encrypted Mesh Network

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