diff --git a/src/components/Footer.svelte b/src/components/Footer.svelte index f5fda0e..88a9c8c 100644 --- a/src/components/Footer.svelte +++ b/src/components/Footer.svelte @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ diff --git a/src/components/Nav.svelte b/src/components/Nav.svelte index 677a863..ac9e913 100644 --- a/src/components/Nav.svelte +++ b/src/components/Nav.svelte @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ justify-content: center; align-items: center; cursor: default; + /*font-weight: bold;*/ } .bold { diff --git a/src/routes/+page.svelte b/src/routes/+page.svelte index 47b817b..bbf2936 100644 --- a/src/routes/+page.svelte +++ b/src/routes/+page.svelte @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

- Our satellites are open infrastructure - that means anyone can use them + FemtoStar satellites are open infrastructure - that means anyone can use them without needing to go through an official gateway. This makes FemtoStar a flexible, open, and inherently net-neutral network, able not just to connect users to the services we provide, but to serve as a platform for @@ -45,21 +45,6 @@ - - - -

- Many products only promise privacy. FemtoStar is different. Privacy and - security are verifiably baked into every part of the system, all the way - down to the lowest level details. We couldn't violate your privacy even - if we wanted to. -

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+ Many products merely promise privacy. FemtoStar is different. Privacy and + security are baked into every part of the system, all the way + down to the lowest level details. Unlike any other wide-area telecommunications network, + FemtoStar offers verifiable guarantees that user privacy is unconditionally + protected. +

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+ diff --git a/src/routes/about-contact/+page.svelte b/src/routes/about-contact/+page.svelte index b9fa517..be7e2e2 100644 --- a/src/routes/about-contact/+page.svelte +++ b/src/routes/about-contact/+page.svelte @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@

The FemtoStar Project is a global community of developers working towards one common goal - better, more open, and more private - communications, anywhere on earth. At the core of the FemtoStar Project - is FemtoStar Inc., a Canadian corporation wholly owned by FemtoStar - Project members and tasked with ownership and operation of the FemtoStar + communications, anywhere on earth. FemtoStar Project members own and + operate FemtoStar Inc., a Canadian corporation tasked with the ownership, + maintenance, and operation of the FemtoStar satellite constellation. However, development of the hardware and - software that make FemtoStar possible is undertaken by a global + software that make FemtoStar possible is undertaken by our global community of volunteer developers with experience ranging from embedded hardware, to secure telecommunications, to software development, to aerospace. @@ -46,28 +46,34 @@ website or of our satellite, then dot com. h eLoremlipsumldolorosit аamett fconsectetureadipiscingmelittSedodolorssemtlaciniaaacr - deuismodоvitaet chendreritositm (if you have Tutanota, you can send end-to-end encrypted mail here too). + deuismodоvitaet chendreritositm.

+ diff --git a/src/routes/free-open-source/+page.svelte b/src/routes/free-open-source/+page.svelte index 5d07a1d..f530fb0 100644 --- a/src/routes/free-open-source/+page.svelte +++ b/src/routes/free-open-source/+page.svelte @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@

From the user terminal, to the spacecraft, to the ground station, FemtoStar is powered by free and open-source hardware and software, and - we don't just mean the high-level stuff. Notably, in a world first for - wide-area communications networks, even the FemtoStar air interface and - the low-level radio firmware implementing it will be free and + we don't just mean the high-level stuff. Notably, in what we believe to be + a world first for wide-area communications networks, even the FemtoStar + air interface and the low-level radio firmware implementing it will be free and open-source software.

@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ effective as a piece of open infrastructure - you can build on top of it, or integrate it into your own products and services. It's what gives FemtoStar the flexibility to work just as well as an internal backup - network for a business as it does as a portable mobile internet - terminal. + network for a business or a low-data-rate M2M service as it does as a + mobile internet hotspot service.

It also allows our users to verify our claims about privacy and diff --git a/src/routes/global-open-infrastructure/+page.svelte b/src/routes/global-open-infrastructure/+page.svelte index 43ef478..a305cfa 100644 --- a/src/routes/global-open-infrastructure/+page.svelte +++ b/src/routes/global-open-infrastructure/+page.svelte @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

Like any satellite communications system, FemtoStar uses a network of - satellites to allow communications between terminals on earth. + satellites to allow communications between terminals on Earth. Traditional communications satellites - both those that act as simple repeaters, and those with onboard routing - fundamentally work by shuffling data to and from user terminals via a separate, @@ -25,23 +25,23 @@ FemtoStar breaks this distinction. All user hardware can be used both to connect to and to operate services, directly via the satellites. There are no special "feeder" links, and no prior arrangement with FemtoStar - is required to operate a service. Credit processing takes place + is required to operate a service. Credit Token processing takes place on-satellite, and works even when no official ground station is available.

- FemtoStar is also developing FemtoStar Real-Time Core Services (RTCS), + The FemtoStar Project is also developing FemtoStar Real-Time Core Services (RTCS), an open standard for basic communications services such as internet access over the FemtoStar network. RTCS is intended to provide a global - baseline in FemtoStar-based service, and will be supported by all of our - own ground stations. We encourage RTCS adoption at third-party ground - stations + baseline in FemtoStar-based service, and will be supported by every ground + station operated by FemtoStar Inc. We encourage RTCS adoption at all third-party ground + stations.

It's not just services either - the FemtoStar terminal will be released as an open standard, with an open-hardware reference design, and - FemtoStar will work with third-party terminal manufacturers to license + FemtoStar Inc. will work with third-party terminal manufacturers to license third-party terminals for use on the FemtoStar network.

diff --git a/src/routes/privacy-by-design/+page.svelte b/src/routes/privacy-by-design/+page.svelte index 73fefa8..29dd834 100644 --- a/src/routes/privacy-by-design/+page.svelte +++ b/src/routes/privacy-by-design/+page.svelte @@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ up the connection or handling a moving user. FemtoStar takes advantage of a unique combination of cautious protocol design, low-level terminal-side mitigations, and the inherent properties of satellites to ensure that the - location of terminals cannot be determined accurately. + location of user terminals never needs to be, and in fact cannot be, determined accurately.
  • End-to-end encrypted - While most modern communications systems encrypt traffic over the air, FemtoStar goes a step further. FemtoStar user traffic is end-to-end encrypted, meaning not even the satellite itself can decrypt it. What's more, connections are direct - from user, to satellite, - to service. Unless you're connecting to a service we provide, our ground - infrastructure never handles your data even in an encrypted form. This + to service. If you're not connecting to a service we provide, our ground + infrastructure never handles your data at all - encrypted or not. This also makes FemtoStar inherently net-neutral - after all, if we can't even decrypt your traffic, we can't selectively limit or throttle it either.
  • @@ -56,11 +56,12 @@ Private payments - An anonymous system isn't truly anonymous if users must still provide identifying information in order to pay for service. FemtoStar's payment system is simple, flexible, and above all, private. - User terminals provide service tokens as they consume service. These tokens - can be bought, stored, sold, used, or transferred freely by the user. They - are not tied to any account or identity, they do not need to be purchased - directly from FemtoStar, and they never expire. Service is priced by satellite - resources consumed, not by time or data usage, so you won't be charged + User terminals provide cryptographic Credit Tokens to the satellite as they consume service. These tokens + can be bought, stored, used, or transferred freely by the user. They + are not linked to any form of user identity, they do not need to be purchased + directly from FemtoStar, and they never expire (when a satellite validates one, + it doesn't even know when it was generated!). Service is priced by satellite + resources (beam time) consumed, not by connection duration or data usage, so you won't be charged more for staying connected for longer or for connecting with a faster terminal.