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Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64

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123 points geerlingguy | 1 comments | 23 Sep 25 23:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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xtajv ◴[27 Sep 25 10:44 UTC] No.45394666[source]▶
It pains me to mention this but I don't think it's responsible not to: https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/issues/4030

At time of writing (2025-09-27, plus or minus a timezone), there does not appear to be any serious attempt to secure application-layer message contents. (At least, not yet)

My hope is that this cool new radio link option will still gain traction and grow and develop without painting itself into a corner, security-wise.

To wit- security hints on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model have improved substantially since my last readthrough.

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mdevttt ◴[27 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45396559[source]▶
As if the Meshtastic devs care about anything but pretending to be a business masquerading as an open source project.

They are quite possibly one of the most toxic projects right now.

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leetrout ◴[27 Sep 25 16:13 UTC] No.45397062[source]▶
I keep seeing folks in my circles playing with it but this is the first I have heard this opinion.

Could you elaborate?

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1. geerlingguy ◴[27 Sep 25 20:42 UTC] No.45399156[source]▶
It seems like there are some people in the Meshtastic and MeshCore community who have it out for each other, for reasons beyond me.

I've only personally tested Meshtastic, and from a technical perspective, it still feels very beta, and I wouldn't put critical communications on it. However, it's a fun introduction to LoRa and long range low power RF, and can be a fun way to communicate much like I think amateur radio was to its early adopters.

I think one thing that causes a lot of community strangeness is the strong push by some to make it what it's not, like some doomsday-proof communication system that will outlive cellular networks and atomic bombs. It could be useful but requires skilled operators and coordination to work well (like using different frequencies and coding at events for much more bandwidth).