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  • solrize@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlThe Perfect Private Messenger
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    8 hours ago

    I think you don’t want to know the real answer. It sounds like you want a phone app, but what you really have to do is flush your phone down the toilet and use a totally different approach. Also, there is absolutely no way to avoid difficult opsec. The communications technology is irrelevant since the greatest vulnerability in any security system is the people who use it. Do you think the private messenger software will free sessions with your therapist from spying? Guess again.

    As the saying used to go, you’re seeking a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.


  • Straight from the original blueprints: heck no, consider the lack of seatbelts to say nothing of emissions.

    With a bunch of engineering tweaks but staying close to original: maybe you could get it to be legal, but almost nobody would buy it. The gas mileage would be terrible. Maintenance would suck. Cars have EFI instead of carbeurators now for good reasons. And a car with no air conditioning would be miserable in lots of places.

    Anyway if you wanted to do a project in that spirit today, I’d suggest making it all electric, but designed simple, like an e-bike on steroids instead of like a Tesla (which is more like a computer on wheels). Use LFP batteries instead of the higher energy but much more finicky and dangerous Tesla style packs, have some rooftop solar panels, maybe something like a street legal Kei minivan:

    https://www.vantagevehicle.com/collections/electric/products/electric-passenger-window-van

    You can buy those used in the US for around $5K but their top speed is 40mph, and they are only legal to drive on slower streets. I was a little bit tempted but decided I needed something that can drive on the freeway.