[May 2026] Silent Lens didn’t ship; for off-grid mesh comms today I’d point at Meshtastic, with the caveat that Meshtastic isn’t hardened against adversarial regimes the way this design aimed to be. The public-key crypto for evidence, immune-system trust gradient, and courier-fallback delivery were all aimed at a much harder problem, and the architecture still seems plausible to me.
I attended the Google I/O Extended “Develop for Good” hackathon in San Francisco in late June. We were asked to create a solution for one of three challenges:
- Google Politics & Elections: Citizen Engagement for Politics & Elections
- Google Ideas: Conflict Reporting for Blackout Situations in Repressive Regimes
- Google Green: Help us all be a little greener!
Our team won the Google Ideas challenge! My sincere congratulations to my team mates Perry Chow, Ansgar Halbfas, Ryan Quellet, and Andrew Song.
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