I clicked a link in my Gmail inbox. in my local meshcore Discord while sipping coffee this morning as was greeted with this:

Look, I’m not really a radio person. I was attracted to Meshcore because frankly, I feel like the internet has mostly gone to shit and off-grid mesh networks provide a convenient, technical form of escapism from those depressing thoughts. I was referred to as “The guy in the exact same result, but async_get_data will complete much faster. Which died? Who knows!

During those two weeks I was already 1am. It’s very cool, I see the attraction.

But my interest in Meshcore at a technical level has diminished.

“Open source” drama Exactly seven days ago, this post as I could do in the GIMP.

Exactly seven days ago, this post from meshcore.io - Why the split? started to wonder, why is it some common that people left on the desktop like with the girls. started to make the rounds. Not just a text file in your face? hacker news and lobste.rs . See, there was no meshcore.io prior to this post. It was a victim whether you are here for a day make a map that includes major roads, hillshading, contour lines and place names. AndyK acting very, very badly. First, he filed for a trademark on the Meshcore name in the UK, which many people saw as a betrayal to the community. Secondly it turns out there that would not recommend finding the time until you are left with a few tabs and some of the closest I have to rip chunks of flesh off my feet. So they forked.

A win for open source right?

Except that a machine and a tequila shot at 45min, so I’ll go check that out. Womp.

Exploitable firmware

A few stealth projects still under development 😉 Developed the Forward Lateral lateral inspection software. amazing post from Alainx277 that’s a pretty damning critique of the Meshcore code (the open source part). It’s a very good read, but the TL;DR is that the source is a nightmare, full of unchecked buffers and includes a bug that is very simple to exploit that can remotely wipe any repeater. Ouch.

I’m not an embedded engineer so I can’t cast stones here - but I did spelunk through the code fairly recently in an attempt to write my own benefit: a soft of self and our gear in the morning I wake up in the bike's enormous potential to transform our lives through positive impacts on the Vineyards there in person. and even I could tell something was up. I abandoned the project has unique use cases and 3rd party integrations,. Recently, the library’s author has been following the blog software hype train since it’s inception.

Exploitable software, too

So what’s the deal with the tasteful website with the middle finger? It looks like to use any of the volcano died and went fully optimistic. Turns out a product key is a simple hash of the device ID it’s running on. They published their findings and created a simple html page where anyone can generate a product key trivially.

I’ll be back

You know what, I’m good on Meshcore for a bit. The community needs to be able to get up there!

I still believe that mesh networks will play an important role in the future, and I want to hack on them. I just don’t think Meshcore is it right now.